Benton County was hit as recently as 2026-06-11, 50 days ago. Benton County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-03-14 near Sulphur Springs.
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 2026-06-11, around Bella Vista. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Benton 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 53 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 148 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 16 days since 2022.
10 of the 53 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 21 of the 53 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 Rogers -- 16 of the county's 53 hail days -- then Siloam Springs (11), Bella Vista (10), Lowell (9) and Bentonville (8). Beyond those, NOAA names Centerton, Decatur, Pea Ridge, Gravette, Gentry, Cave Springs, Maysville, Highfill and Elm Springs on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Siloam Springs | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Rogers | 8 | 3.00″ |
| Lowell | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Bella Vista | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Centerton | 4 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through August: 44 of the 53 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, September and October, outside that window. November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 5 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Bella Vista. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-28 | 3.00″ | 12 |
| 2026-03-04 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2025-04-18 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.25″ | 4 |
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 4 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: Washington County (49 hail days), Carroll County (22), Madison County (17), McDonald County, Missouri (41) and Delaware County, Oklahoma (26). Benton County takes more hail than any of them.
Washington County · Carroll County · Madison County · McDonald County, Missouri · Delaware County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Benton County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.