The most recent reported hail day was 2023-12-09 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Simpson 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 2013-03-18 near Harrisville.
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 2023-12-09, around Merit. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Simpson 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 48 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 2.1 a year before that.
3 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2013-03-18. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 8 of the 28 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 Magee -- 9 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Braxton (6), Mendenhall (5), D'Lo (4) and Whites (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Harrisville and Merit on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Sw D'Lo | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Braxton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Magee | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Mendenhall | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 Sse Magee | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through June: 23 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). March is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, July, September and December, outside that window. August, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Merit. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-09 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-03 | 1.00″ | 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: Rankin County (58 hail days), Smith County (19) and Jefferson Davis County (22). Simpson County sits in between.
Rankin County · Smith County · Jefferson Davis 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, Simpson County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.