The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Laurel 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 2011-03-23 near London.
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 Keavy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Laurel 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. Those days carry 39 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-05-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. 5 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 London -- 7 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Keavy (3) and Hightop (2). That one town is named on 47% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| London | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Keavy | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Hightop | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 S London | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 W London | 1 | 2.00″ |
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 5 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Keavy. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-09-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.25″ | 6 |
| 2018-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2016-05-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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: Jackson County (17 hail days), Rockcastle County (16) and Pulaski County (25). Every one of them takes more hail than Laurel County.
Jackson County · Rockcastle County · Pulaski County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Laurel County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.