The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-19, 162 days ago. Nelson 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 2018-07-20 near Coxs Creek.
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 2026-02-19, around Deatsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nelson 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 33 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 2024, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2022-05-19. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 4 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 Boston -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Bardstown (4), Nazareth (4), Coxs Creek (3) and Bloomfield (3). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Deatsville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Boston | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Bardstown | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Coxs Creek | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 4 Nne Boston | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Bloomfield | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through May: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and November, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Deatsville. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-19 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-11-29 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-20 | 2.50″ | 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: Hardin County (15 hail days), Jefferson County (27) and Shelby County (17). Nelson County sits in between.
Hardin County · Jefferson County · Shelby 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, Nelson County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.