The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-09, 144 days ago. Polk County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-04-11 near Rockmart.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Georgia. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-03-09, around Cedartown. 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 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. The busiest single year was 2021, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2013-04-11. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 4 of the 13 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cedartown -- 10 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Rockmart (2) and Aragon (2). That one town is named on 77% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cedartown | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Ssw Rockmart | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Rockmart | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 Sw Cedartown | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 S Cedartown | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (92%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cedartown. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2016-04-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2015-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-06-13 | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Bartow County (20 hail days), Cobb County (29), Gordon County (20), Cherokee County, Alabama (16) and Calhoun County, Alabama (27). Every one of them takes more hail than Polk County.
Bartow County · Cobb County · Gordon County · Cherokee County, Alabama · Calhoun County, Alabama
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Polk County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.