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The public record 1996 to today

Florida hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,763 days with hail somewhere in Florida since 1996, 876 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 13,458 reports. The largest on record is 4.50″ on 30 March 1996 in POLK County. 227 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Florida wind history.

1,763

Days with hail on record, statewide

876

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.50in

Largest on record, Mar 1996

227

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Florida

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Maitland 151 days
  2. 02 Cooper City 150 days
  3. 03 Davie 143 days
  4. 04 Plantation 142 days
  5. 05 Winter Park 141 days
  6. 06 Jacksonville 135 days
  7. 07 Altamonte Springs 131 days
  8. 08 Miami Gardens 130 days
  9. 09 Casselberry 130 days
  10. 10 Hialeah 127 days
  11. 11 Temple Terrace 125 days
  12. 12 Belle Isle 125 days
  13. 13 Pembroke Pines 124 days
  14. 14 Opa-locka 123 days
  15. 15 Miramar 121 days
  16. 16 Lauderhill 119 days
  17. 17 Sunrise 118 days
  18. 18 Orange Park 117 days
  19. 19 Hialeah Gardens 116 days
  20. 20 Winter Springs 115 days
  21. 21 Miami Lakes 115 days
  22. 22 Palm Coast 114 days
  23. 23 Lauderdale Lakes 114 days
  24. 24 Miami Springs 114 days
  25. 25 Fort Lauderdale 113 days
  26. 26 Tamarac 113 days
  27. 27 Dania Beach 113 days
  28. 28 Wilton Manors 111 days
  29. 29 Longwood 109 days
  30. 30 North Lauderdale 108 days
Every place in Florida (227)

Hail days by year in Florida

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2022, with 78 days of hail, 33 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Florida

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Florida: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
30 Mar 1996 4.50″ Ground observation POLK, FL
28 Feb 2003 4.50″ Ground observation BRADFORD, FL
01 Mar 2003 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
13 May 2007 4.50″ Ground observation MARION, FL
13 May 2007 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
28 Feb 1998 3.00″ Ground observation PASCO, FL
03 May 2001 3.00″ Ground observation PINELLAS, FL
03 May 2001 3.00″ Ground observation Not stated

Hail days by month in Florida

Hail here is a June matter: 403 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

Before you run an address

The finder lists every day with hail on record within 10 miles of an address in the last 2 years, ranked by how many independent sources carried it, so the day a file names is a day the record holds.

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Get the hail report for an address in Florida

The figures on this page are the record across Florida: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Florida by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 25 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.