The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Rockcastle County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-04-25 near Berea.
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 Wabo. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rockcastle 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 26 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2014 alone produced 5 of the 16 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2015-04-25. They land in the same month as everything else, April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 16 days.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Brodhead -- 5 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Conway (2), Hiatt (2) and Boone (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Brodhead | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Hiatt | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Boone | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 S Berea | 1 | 2.00″ |
| Roundstone | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through August: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (44%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Wabo. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2017-05-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-04-29 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2015-04-25 | 2.00″ | 5 |
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 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), Madison County (15) and Pulaski County (25). Rockcastle County sits in between.
Jackson County · Madison County · Pulaski County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rockcastle County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.