The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Jackson 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 2012-04-26 near Sandgap.
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 Tyner. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jackson 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 31 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 2014, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 17 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, April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest McKee -- 7 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Annville (4), Sandgap (3), Tyner (3) and Turkey Foot (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Gray Hawk and Ne Hisel on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Annville | 4 | 1.50″ |
| McKee | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Sandgap | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Tyner | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Turkey Foot | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Tyner. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-06-19 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-01 | 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 2.5 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: Rockcastle County (16 hail days), Laurel County (15) and Madison County (15). Jackson County takes more hail than any of them.
Rockcastle County · Laurel County · Madison 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, Jackson County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.