The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-05, 329 days ago. Madison County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-25 near Valley View.
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 2025-09-05, around Kingston. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Madison 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 34 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: 2012 alone produced 5 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
3 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-06-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 7 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 Richmond -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Berea (6), Redhouse (3) and Valley View (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Berea | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Richmond | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Valley View | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 NW Richmond | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 2 Ese Valley View | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs February through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). April 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 June, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Kingston. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-05 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-25 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2017-04-05 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2017-02-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-10 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2015-04-25 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2014-05-21 | 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 2.75 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), Jackson County (17) and Scott County (14). Madison County sits in between.
Rockcastle County · Jackson County · Scott 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, Madison County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.