The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Boone County is hit in most years. 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 2017-05-11 near Omaha.
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 2025-03-30, around Hopewell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Boone 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 50 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2017 alone produced 7 of the 32 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
6 of the 32 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2024-05-25. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 12 of the 32 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 Omaha -- 12 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Harrison (9), Diamond City (4), Alpena (2) and Lead Hill (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Bergman, Ridgeway, Bellefonte and Valley Springs on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Omaha | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Harrison | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Bellefonte | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Diamond City | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Ne Alpena | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 27 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 6 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hopewell. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-01 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-10-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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), Newton County (24), Carroll County (22) and Taney County, Missouri (34). Boone County sits in between.
Marion County · Newton County · Carroll County · Taney County, Missouri
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Boone County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.