The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Wilson 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 2022-06-17 near Belinda 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 Watertown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wilson 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 53 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 27 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2022-06-17. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 27 days.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lebanon -- 16 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Mount Juliet (6), Watertown (4) and Belinda City (3). That one town is named on 59% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Mount Juliet | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 3 N Lebanon | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Watertown | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Se Belinda City | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through August: 24 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (89%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (22%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Watertown. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-17 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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: Sumner County (27 hail days), Davidson County (32) and Rutherford County (33). Wilson County sits in between.
Sumner County · Davidson County · Rutherford 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, Wilson County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.