The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-23 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Bolivar 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 2023-03-01 near Perthshire.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Mississippi. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-03-23, around Benoit. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bolivar 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 48 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 28 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
4 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-06-16. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 12 of the 28 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Alligator -- 5 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Benoit (5), Gunnison (4), Cleveland (3) and Shelby (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Duncan, Shaw, Pace and Rosedale on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shelby | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Benoit | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Gunnison | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Alligator | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Shaw | 2 | 1.00″ |
Bolivar County has no tight season -- it takes 8 months (March through October) to account for 89% of the 28 days on record. March is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (32%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January and November, outside that window. February, August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Benoit. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-24 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-01 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-10-12 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-03-28 | 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 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: Sunflower County (20 hail days), Washington County (32), Leflore County (15) and Desha County, Arkansas (13). Bolivar County sits in between.
Sunflower County · Washington County · Leflore County · Desha County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bolivar County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.