Walton County was hit as recently as 2026-05-07, 85 days ago. Walton 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 2014-05-25 near Dean Church Road.
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 2026-05-07, around Paxton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Walton 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2025 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Walton County: all 15 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Only one place in the county is named on more than a single hail day: Freeport, on 3 of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Wnw Dean Church Road | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 SSW Douglass Crossroa | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Se Liberty Hill | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 4 WNW Bruce | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 1 NNW Paxton | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Paxton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-08 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-01-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-03-17 | 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 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: Bay County (18 hail days), Santa Rosa County (17), Escambia County (21), Covington County, Alabama (13) and Dale County, Alabama (13). Walton County sits in between.
Bay County · Santa Rosa County · Escambia County · Covington County, Alabama · Dale County, Alabama
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Walton County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.