The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-20 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Rutherford 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 2011-10-18 near Murfreesboro.
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 2025-05-20, around Eagleville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rutherford 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 60 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 13 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 33 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2025-03-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 33 days.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Murfreesboro -- 23 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Smyrna (5), Eagleville (4), Walterhill (3) and La Vergne (2). That one town is named on 70% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names S Murfreesboro on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Murfreesboro | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Smyrna | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 W Murfreesboro | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 7 E Eagleville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 9 S Murfreesboro | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through August: 27 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, September and October, outside that window. November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Eagleville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-20 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-30 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-06 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.25″ | 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 2.5 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: Bedford County (16 hail days), Wilson County (27) and Williamson County (34). Rutherford County sits in between.
Bedford County · Wilson County · Williamson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rutherford County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.