The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Yazoo County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-28 near Vaughan.
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 2026-04-28, around Vaughan. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Yazoo 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 25 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2026-04-28. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 25 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 Benton -- 9 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Yazoo City (5), Eden (5), Midway (4) and Vaughan (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Holly Bluff, Bentonia and Tinsley on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Benton | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Yazoo City | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Eden | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Bentonia | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 W Vaughan | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 21 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, September, November and December, outside that window. July, August and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Vaughan. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.30″ | 7 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-18 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-02-05 | 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 3 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: Madison County (37 hail days), Holmes County (26) and Hinds County (41). Every one of them takes more hail than Yazoo County.
Madison County · Holmes County · Hinds County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Yazoo County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.