The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Pike County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-06-21 near Sidney.
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 Fedscreek. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pike 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 59 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 25 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 8 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more, 32% of them, the last on 2025-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 11 of the 25 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 Virgie -- 4 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Kimper (4), Pikeville (4), Mouthcard (4) and Fedscreek (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Elkhorn City, Raccoon, Meta, Phelps, Dorton, Canada, Hardy, Hatfield Station and Shelbiana on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Virgie | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Fedscreek | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Kimper | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Pikeville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Se Mouthcard | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 22 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and July, 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 | 7 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Fedscreek. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-08 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2025-02-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-16 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-05-05 | 1.50″ | 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 3 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, over the state line included: Floyd County (13 hail days), Johnson County (13), Lawrence County (19) and McDowell County, West Virginia (13). Pike County takes more hail than any of them.
Floyd County · Johnson County · Lawrence County · McDowell County, West Virginia
Back to the Kentucky hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pike County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.