The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 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.
The last hail here fell on 2026-03-15, around Endville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pontotoc 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 41 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 7 days since 2022.
2 of the 20 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. 5 of the 20 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 Pontotoc -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Troy (5), Randolph (5), Furrs (3) and Sherman (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Algoma, Ecru 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″ |
The season runs February through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (25%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August, 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 | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Endville. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.75″ | 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: Union County (23 hail days), Lee County (40) and Lafayette County (21). Every one of them takes more hail than Pontotoc County.
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.