Pontotoc County, Mississippi Hail Map & History
Pontotoc County was hit as recently as 2026-08-20, 25 days ago. Pontotoc County is hit in most years. 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 2024-06-09 near Troy.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Mississippi. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 43 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2025-05-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Pontotoc County
Reports cluster nearest Pontotoc -- 6 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Troy (5), Randolph (5), Ecru (4) and Furrs (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Sherman, Algoma and Thaxton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Randolph | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Sherman | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Pontotoc | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 3 NW Troy | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Thaxton | 2 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Pontotoc County
The season runs March through August: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, October and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 5 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 2 |
| December | 1 |
Recent Pontotoc County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Hurricane. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-08 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-09 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.25″ | 3 |
How to read the Pontotoc County map
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.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Union County (23 hail days), Lee County (40) and Lafayette County (21). Pontotoc County sits in between.
Union County · Lee County · Lafayette County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pontotoc County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.