Historical hail archive: January 2016–December 2025. NOAA radar estimates within 25 miles of each city centre. ZIP matches use the first three digits; this is not a property-level report or a live alert service. Coverage and source.
Davidson County · Tennessee · NOAA radar record 2016–2025
Hail damage in Nashville, TN
Radar has detected hail over Nashville on 303 separate days since 2016. On 79 of them the largest stone was estimated at golf-ball size or bigger. The biggest was 10.2 cm on September 6, 2018.
A very high value in this historical exposure model. This is not a national percentile or a diagnosis of your roof; the component values explain the result.
How we got to that number
| Component | Value | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency Hail days per year at 1.00 in (2.5 cm) or larger | 59 / 100 | × 0.35 | 20.6 |
| Severity Largest stone radar estimated in the whole window | 100 / 100 | × 0.30 | 30.0 |
| Recency How long since the last 2 in (5 cm) day | 97 / 100 | × 0.20 | 19.3 |
| Concentration Hail days per year reaching golf-ball size | 40 / 100 | × 0.15 | 5.9 |
| RoofTake Score | 76 | ||
The score describes an area, not a house. Two roofs on the same street of different ages face very different risk from the identical storm. The whole formula and its weights are on the methodology page, and you can recompute it yourself from our public data.
Middle Tennessee hail is smaller than plains hail but lands on older roofs.
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Data last refreshed: · source: NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory, dataset nx3hail
The ten biggest hail days in Nashville since 2016
| Date | Radar max size | Metric | Comparison | Signatures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 6, 2018 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 7 |
| May 8, 2024 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 391 |
| May 26, 2024 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 180 |
| May 11, 2016 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 375 |
| March 25, 2021 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 27 |
| July 7, 2022 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 61 |
| July 1, 2023 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 166 |
| May 20, 2025 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 82 |
| March 10, 2017 | 3.25 in | 8.3 cm | Teacup | 45 |
| March 26, 2021 | 3.25 in | 8.3 cm | Teacup | 30 |
"Signatures" is the number of separate radar volume scans that detected hail in a storm cell within 25 miles that day. More signatures means a longer-lived or larger storm, not necessarily bigger stones.
Hail days by year
Busiest year in the record: 2025 with 42 hail days.
Hail days by month
Peak month: July. Hail season in Tennessee is short and it is not distributed evenly — most of the annual risk arrives in a few weeks.
What to do with this if you own a roof in Nashville
- Find your dates. Look up your ZIP for the record nearest you, and note every day at 1.00 in or above since you bought the house.
- Work out whether your roof could have survived them. A twelve-year-old asphalt roof and a two-year-old one respond very differently to the same stone — the age calculator explains why.
- Look, before you file. Nine photographs, none of them requiring you to get on the roof.
- Check the arithmetic. If the actual cash value of the damage is under your deductible, filing pays nothing — work it out first.
- Then write. The letter generator puts the Nashville radar record and the NOAA citation into your notice of claim.
Every hail day radar recorded near Nashville
303 days, most recent first. Sizes are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in the cell, not measurements at any address.
- November 8, 20252.75 in (7.0 cm) — Baseball size, radar-estimated
- November 7, 20252.75 in (7.0 cm) — Baseball size, radar-estimated
- September 23, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- September 22, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- September 16, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- September 11, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- September 6, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- September 4, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- August 13, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 29, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 22, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 21, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 18, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 17, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 13, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- July 7, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 6, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 19, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- June 13, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 9, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 7, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 6, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- May 20, 20253.50 in (8.9 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- May 19, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- May 17, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- May 12, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 8, 20252.75 in (7.0 cm) — Baseball size, radar-estimated
- May 2, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- April 24, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- April 23, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- April 15, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- April 5, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- April 3, 20252.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- April 2, 20253.25 in (8.3 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- March 31, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- March 24, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- March 23, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- March 20, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- March 15, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- March 13, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- February 16, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- February 6, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- September 25, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- September 24, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- August 1, 20240.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- July 31, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 30, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 29, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 22, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 21, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 30, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 26, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 16, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- June 3, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 27, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 26, 20243.75 in (9.5 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- May 25, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- May 22, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- May 9, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- May 8, 20243.75 in (9.5 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
Showing the 60 most recent of 303. The full record is in the JSON we publish: nashville-tn.json.
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Hail in Nashville, TN: common questions
How often does Nashville get damaging hail?
Radar recorded 303 hail days within 25 miles of the city centre between 2016 and 2025 — an average of 30.3 a year, of which 7.9 a year were at golf-ball size or larger. Not every one of those damages roofs.
When is hail season in Nashville?
The busiest month in this record is July, and 2025 was the busiest single year with 42 hail days.
Does this mean my roof is damaged?
No. These are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in a storm cell somewhere within 25 miles of the city centre. Whether anything landed on your street, and whether it damaged your particular roof, needs somebody to look.
How do I use this for an insurance claim?
A specific date with a public, citable source is what turns 'sometime last year' into a date of loss. Use the claim letter generator, which pulls the date and the NOAA citation in for you.
Why 25 miles?
It is wide enough to catch storms that clipped the metro and narrow enough that the number still means something for a house inside it. The same radius is used for every metro so the pages are comparable.
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