The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Cheatham County is hit in most years. 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 2025-04-02 near Ashland City.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Tennessee. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-08, around Ashland City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cheatham 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-04-02. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 4 of the 15 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ashland City -- 12 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Kingston Springs (2). That one town is named on 80% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 NNE Ashland City | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Ashland City | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 6 NE Ashland City | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 E Ashland City | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Wnw Ashland City | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and November, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ashland City. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-02 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-08 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-11-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-23 | 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 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: Robertson County (26 hail days), Davidson County (32) and Dickson County (26). Every one of them takes more hail than Cheatham County.
Robertson County · Davidson County · Dickson County
Back to the Tennessee hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cheatham County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.