DeSoto County was hit as recently as 2026-06-01, 60 days ago. DeSoto County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2023-06-11 near Horn Lake.
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 2026-06-01, around Olive Branch. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls DeSoto 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 35 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 54 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 35 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2023-06-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 35 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Olive Branch -- 14 of the county's 35 hail days -- then Hernando (9), Southaven (7), Walls (4) and Horn Lake (2). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Eudora and Memphis on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Olive Branch | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Southaven | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Walls | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Hernando | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 NW Horn Lake | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 28 of the 35 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, October, November and December, outside that window. February, August and September are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 3 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Olive Branch. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.25″ | 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 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: Tate County (18 hail days), Marshall County (17), Panola County (24), Shelby County, Tennessee (51) and Crittenden County, Arkansas (15). DeSoto County sits in between.
Tate County · Marshall County · Panola County · Shelby County, Tennessee · Crittenden County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, DeSoto County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.