The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-22 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Forrest County is hit in most years. 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 2011-05-26 near Rock Hill.
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 2025-04-22, around Eastabuchie. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Forrest 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 44 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 7 of the 27 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 27 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2011-05-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 27 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest McLaurin -- 7 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Hattiesburg (6), Petal (6), Brooklyn (5) and Rock Hill (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| McLaurin | 4 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Wnw Petal | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Wnw McLaurin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Rock Hill | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Hattiesburg | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 22 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February and July, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Eastabuchie. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-01-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-15 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-03-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-27 | 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 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: Lamar County (24 hail days), Jones County (33) and Marion County (22). Forrest County sits in between.
Lamar County · Jones County · Marion County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Forrest County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.