Kentucky hail history

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Kentucky had hail reported on 224 days from 2016 to 2025, about 22 a year, and on 1,238 days since 1955. The largest hailstone on record in the state is 5.00″ (April 23, 1968). Daviess County had the most hail days of any county from 2016 to 2025 (27).

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Data through November 6, 2026. Methodology

Report counts rose over the decades as more people and spotters reported storms, so compare recent years with each other rather than with the 1960s.

Kentucky cities with the most hail days, 2016–2025

Biggest hail days in Kentucky since 2016

The largest hail and the biggest storm days since 1955, with radar swaths since 2019: Biggest hail storms in Kentucky history

Kentucky counties

Places with fewer than 5 hail days on record are listed without a link and kept out of search engines.

When hail falls in Kentucky, by month and week: Kentucky hail season

Download every Kentucky hail, tornado and wind report as CSV, by year: Kentucky storm report downloads

All Kentucky cities

Alexandria Anchorage Ashland Barbourville Bardstown Beaver Dam Bellevue Benton Berea Bowling Green Brandenburg Cadiz Calvert City Campbellsville Carrollton Central City Cold Spring Columbia Corbin Covington Crescent Springs Crestview Hills Crestwood Crittenden Cynthiana Danville Dayton Douglass Hills Edgewood Elizabethtown Elsmere Eminence Erlanger Flatwoods Flemingsburg Florence Fort Mitchell Fort Thomas Fort Wright Frankfort Franklin Georgetown Glasgow Graymoor-Devondale Grayson Greenville Harrodsburg Hartford Hazard Henderson Highland Heights Hillview Hodgenville Hopkinsville Hurstbourne Independence Indian Hills Jeffersontown La Grange Lakeside Park Lancaster Lawrenceburg Lebanon Leitchfield Lexington-Fayette London Louisa Louisville/Jefferson County Ludlow Lyndon Madisonville Marion Mayfield Maysville Middlesborough Middletown Monticello Morehead Morganfield Morgantown Mount Sterling Mount Washington Murray Newport Nicholasville Oak Grove Owensboro Paducah Paintsville Paris Park Hills Pikeville Pioneer Village Prestonsburg Princeton Prospect Providence Radcliff Richmond Russell Russell Springs Russellville Scottsville Shelbyville Shepherdsville Shively Simpsonville Somerset Southgate Springfield St. Matthews Stanford Stanton Taylor Mill Union Versailles Villa Hills Vine Grove Walton West Liberty Wilder Williamsburg Williamstown Wilmore Winchester

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