Pearl River County was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Pearl River County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2017-02-07 near Picayune.
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 2026-05-08, around Poplarville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pearl River 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 9 days since 2022, against 0.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2017-02-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in February, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 16 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Mcneil -- 6 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Poplarville (5), Picayune (3) and Crossroads (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Picayune | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Picayune | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 4 WSW Mcneil | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 6 N Poplarville | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 6 Se McNeil | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Poplarville. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-14 | 1.00″ | 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 and parishes with a page of their own, over the state line included: Harrison County (17 hail days), Lamar County (24), Marion County (22) and St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (21). Every one of them takes more hail than Pearl River County.
Harrison County · Lamar County · Marion County · St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pearl River County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.