The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Oktibbeha 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 2011-04-20 near Starkville.
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 2025-05-08, around Starkville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Oktibbeha 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 35 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 4 of the 18 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
3 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-05-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 8 of the 18 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 Starkville -- 10 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Maben (5) and Sturgis (2). That one town is named on 56% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Starkville | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Maben | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Starkville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 4 Sse Maben | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 9 Wsw Starkville | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Starkville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2023-04-27 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-09 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2016-03-31 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-10-13 | 1.25″ | 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: Clay County (15 hail days), Choctaw County (15) and Webster County (14). Oktibbeha County takes more hail than any of them.
Clay County · Choctaw County · Webster 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, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.