The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-19 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Breckinridge County is hit in most years. 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 2022-05-19 near Union Star.
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 2025-03-19, around Webster. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Breckinridge 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 37 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Breckinridge County: all 22 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hardinsburg -- 5 of the county's 22 hail days -- then McDaniels (5), Mcquady (4), Harned (4) and Cloverport (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Garfield, Irvington and Webster on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| McDaniels | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Mcquady | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Hardinsburg | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Harned | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Cloverport | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Webster. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-27 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-09-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2018-07-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.50″ | 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: Grayson County (16 hail days), Hardin County (15) and Ohio County (20). Breckinridge County takes more hail than any of them.
Grayson County · Hardin County · Ohio County
Back to the Kentucky hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Breckinridge County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.