The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-16, 106 days ago. Marshall County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.25 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-05-07 near Brewers.
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 2026-04-16, around Reidland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marshall 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 38 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
4 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-04-16. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 6 of the 18 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 Calvert City -- 7 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Benton (7), Aurora (3), Brewers (2) and Sharpe (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Elva on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Benton | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Calvert City | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Aurora | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Sharpe | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Elva | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, July and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Reidland. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2025-05-16 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-07 | 2.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-21 | 1.75″ | 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 2.25 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: Calloway County (21 hail days), McCracken County (20) and Graves County (22). Every one of them takes more hail than Marshall County.
Calloway County · McCracken County · Graves 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, Marshall County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.