The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-13 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Polk County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-05-15 near Davenport.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Florida. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-05-13, around Lake Alfred. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Polk County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2022-05-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 6 of the 20 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Haines City -- 5 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Lake Wales (5), Lake Alfred (3), Poinciana (3) and Auburndale (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Loughman, Davenport and Frostproof on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Ne Poinciana | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Haines City | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lake Alfred | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Auburndale | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Davenport | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Lake Alfred. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-13 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-18 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 2 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Osceola County (19 hail days), Orange County (36) and Lake County (17). Polk County sits in between.
Osceola County · Orange County · Lake County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Polk County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.