Santa Rosa County was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Santa Rosa County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-03-30 near Pace.
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 2026-05-08, around Allentown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Santa Rosa 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 20 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2022 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 8 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Santa Rosa County: all 17 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Pace -- 3 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Bagdad (3), Milton (3), Jay (2) and Navarre (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jay | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Munson | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Pace | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Wsw Milton Near Whiti | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 2 Nnw Pace | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs January through June: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Allentown. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-01-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-30 | 1.75″ | 2 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Escambia County (21 hail days), Walton County (15), Bay County (18), Escambia County, Alabama (15) and Baldwin County, Alabama (25). Santa Rosa County sits in between.
Escambia County · Walton County · Bay County · Escambia County, Alabama · Baldwin County, Alabama
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Santa Rosa County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.