The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Breathitt 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 2025-05-16 near Lost Creek.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kentucky. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-16, around Lost Creek. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Breathitt 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 32 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 5 of the 16 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Jackson -- 4 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Lost Creek (3), Clayhole (3), Ned (2) and Guerrant (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Talbert on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lost Creek | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Clayhole | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Ned | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Jackson | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NE Ned | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 3 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Lost Creek. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-14 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 2.00″ | 9 |
| 2021-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-10 | 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: Morgan County (13 hail days), Floyd County (13) and Jackson County (17). Breathitt County sits in between.
Morgan County · Floyd County · Jackson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Breathitt County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.