The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Chicot County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2024-12-28 near Dermott.
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 Montrose. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chicot 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 49 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 32 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2024-12-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. 13 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 Dermott -- 14 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Lake Village (10), Eudora (8), McMillan Corner (3) and Montrose (3). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dermott | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Lake Village | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 3 E Dermott | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 S Dermott | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Eudora | 2 | 1.00″ |
Chicot County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (November through May) to account for 81% of the 32 days on record. March is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, July, September and October, outside that window. January and August are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 10 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Montrose. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-12-28 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-04 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-11 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-11-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-21 | 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: Drew County (15 hail days), Desha County (13), Ashley County (27) and Washington County, Mississippi (32). Chicot County sits in between.
Drew County · Desha County · Ashley County · Washington County, Mississippi
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chicot County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.