The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-15 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. McMinn County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-04-25 near Etowah.
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 2025-03-15, around Athens. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls McMinn 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 25 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 5 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in McMinn County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. 5 of the 20 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 Athens -- 8 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Etowah (4), Englewood (2), Decatur (2) and Niota (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Athens | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Etowah | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 W Englewood | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Wnw Etowah | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Riceville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June and August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Athens. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-25 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-04-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-08-20 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Monroe County (14 hail days), Bradley County (18) and Loudon County (14). McMinn County takes more hail than any of them.
Monroe County · Bradley County · Loudon 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, McMinn County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.