The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Butler 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 2024-05-08 near South Hill.
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 South Hill. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Butler 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 22 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: 2015 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Butler County: all 15 hail days on record topped out below that. 4 of the 15 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 Morgantown -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Sugar Grove (3), Welchs Creek (3), South Hill (2) and Logansport (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Morgantown | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Wsw Sugar Grove | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 NNE South Hill | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sw Morgantown | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 SSW South Hill | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 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, July and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near South Hill. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-12 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-03-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 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: Ohio County (20 hail days), Warren County (22) and Muhlenberg County (13). Butler County sits in between.
Ohio County · Warren County · Muhlenberg 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, Butler County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.