Rankin County was hit as recently as 2026-06-01, 60 days ago. Rankin County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2023-03-26 near Fannin.
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 2026-06-01, around Goshen Springs. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rankin 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 58 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 136 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2023, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 19 days since 2022.
8 of the 58 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-03-26. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 17 of the 58 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 Brandon -- 17 of the county's 58 hail days -- then Florence (9), Flowood (6), JAN Airport (6) and Pelahatchie (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Fannin, Goshen Springs, Puckett, Johns, Cato, Pearl, Star, Sand Hill and Cleary on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Florence | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Flowood | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Pearl | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Puckett | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through May: 48 of the 58 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). March is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. July, September and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 7 |
| March | 19 |
| April | 16 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Goshen Springs. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-24 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-18 | 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 2.75 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: Hinds County (41 hail days), Madison County (37) and Simpson County (28). Rankin County takes more hail than any of them.
Hinds County · Madison County · Simpson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rankin County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.