The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Baxter County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-04-09 near Colfax.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Arkansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-03-15, around Midway. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Baxter 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 41 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 71 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 8 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 7 days since 2022, against 2.8 a year before that.
4 of the 41 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2021-04-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 11 of the 41 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Arkansas, see the Arkansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Mountain Home -- 20 of the county's 41 hail days -- then Norfork (6), Gassville (4), Briarcliff (3) and Gamaliel (3). That one town is named on 49% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Midway, Big Flat, Henderson, Lakeview, Rodney, Clarkridge, Fawn Park, Jordan and Whiteville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nne Mountain Home | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Norfork | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Midway | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 E Mountain Home | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 34 of the 41 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August, September and October, outside that window. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Midway. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-10-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-10-23 | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Marion County (19 hail days), Izard County (19), Fulton County (20) and Ozark County, Missouri (25). Baxter County takes more hail than any of them.
Marion County · Izard County · Fulton County · Ozark County, Missouri
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Baxter County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.