The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Lamar County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-03-17 near Purvis.
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 2026-04-26, around Okahola. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lamar 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 51 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2022-04-15. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 8 of the 24 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 Purvis -- 6 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Baxterville (5), Oak Grove (4), West Hattiesburg (4) and Lumberton (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Sumrall, Pine Burr, Hickory Grove, Oloh, Pinebur and Bellevue on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Ne Pinebur | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 7 W West Hattiesburg | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Purvis | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ene Oak Grove | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 3 SW Oak Grove | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs January through May: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (46%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, July, August and December, outside that window. September, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 3 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Okahola. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-05-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-15 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-04-19 | 1.75″ | 9 |
| 2019-12-16 | 1.75″ | 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 2.75 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: Forrest County (27 hail days), Marion County (22) and Jefferson Davis County (22). Lamar County sits in between.
Forrest County · Marion County · Jefferson Davis County
Back to the Mississippi hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lamar County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.