The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Floyd County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2025-05-08 near Alvin.
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 2025-05-08, around Alvin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Floyd 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. Those days carry 27 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2025 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-05-08. They land in the same month as everything else, May.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Melvin -- 2 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Lancer (2), Garret (2) and Martin (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Melvin | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Garret | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Alvin | 1 | 2.50″ |
| Wayland | 1 | 2.00″ |
| Emma | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (46%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Alvin. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-14 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-03-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.25″ | 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 2.5 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: Pike County (25 hail days), Johnson County (13) and Lawrence County (19). Floyd County sits in between.
Pike County · Johnson County · Lawrence County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Floyd County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.