Dade County, Georgia Hail Map & History
Dade County was hit as recently as 2026-09-21, 39 days ago. Dade County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-04-27 near Wildwood.
Hail size, inches
- 0.25 in, pea
- 0.75 in, penny
- 1 in, quarter
- 1.25 in, half dollar
- 1.5 in, ping pong ball
- 1.75 in, golf ball
- 2 in, hen egg
- 2.5 in, tennis ball
- 3 in and up, teacup
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Georgia. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2011-04-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Dade County
Reports cluster nearest Rising Fawn -- 5 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Trenton (5) and Cole City (4).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 E Cole City | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 NW Rising Fawn | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 E Rising Fawn | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Wildwood | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 2 NNE Rising Fawn | 1 | 1.50″ |
When it hails in Dade County
The season runs March through August: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Dade County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cole City. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-08-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-06 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2018-03-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-21 | 1.00″ | 3 |
How to read the Dade County map
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Deep violet is about an inch, the violet grows lighter as the hail grows, and pale lilac to near-white is 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 2.5 inches, which is the pale lilac band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Gordon County (20 hail days), Bartow County (20), Polk County (13), Marion County, Tennessee (16) and Hamilton County, Tennessee (19). Dade County sits in between.
Gordon County · Bartow County · Polk County · Marion County, Tennessee · Hamilton County, Tennessee
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dade County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.