Jefferson Davis County was hit as recently as 2026-05-06, 86 days ago. Jefferson Davis County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-03-26 near Prentiss.
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 2026-05-06, around Clem. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jefferson Davis 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 31 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-05-06. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 8 of the 22 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 Prentiss -- 9 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Progress (4), Clem (3), Carson (3) and Bassfield (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Gwinville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Prentiss | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Bassfield | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Carson | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Wnw Prentiss | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Nne Prentiss | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs February through June: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, July, August and November, outside that window. September, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Clem. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-17 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-11-29 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-17 | 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 2.5 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: Lawrence County (21 hail days), Marion County (22) and Simpson County (28). Jefferson Davis County sits in between.
Lawrence County · Marion County · Simpson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.