The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Marion County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2012-03-02 near Jasper.
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 2026-02-26, around South Pittsburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marion 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 30 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2017 alone produced 4 of the 16 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2017-03-01. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 5 of the 16 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 South Pittsburg -- 7 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Jasper (5), Whitwell (4), Orme (2) and Martin Springs (2). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jasper | 4 | 1.75″ |
| South Pittsburg | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Whitwell | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sw Jasper | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 6 W Jasper | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (38%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January and February, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near South Pittsburg. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-23 | 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, over the state line included: Hamilton County (19 hail days), Coffee County (21), Bradley County (18), Dade County, Georgia (13) and Jackson County, Alabama (24). Marion County sits in between.
Hamilton County · Coffee County · Bradley County · Dade County, Georgia · Jackson County, Alabama
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Marion County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.