The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Cleveland County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-04-03 near Staves.
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 Rye. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cleveland 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 18 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
3 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2025-04-03. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 6 of the 13 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 Rison -- 9 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Rye (3). That one town is named on 69% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rison | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Rye | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Randall | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 3 ENE Staves | 1 | 3.00″ |
| Kingsland | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through April: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in May and June, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 3 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Rye. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-03 | 3.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-01 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-02-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-03-28 | 1.75″ | 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 3 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: Lincoln County (18 hail days), Jefferson County (26) and Grant County (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Cleveland County.
Lincoln County · Jefferson County · Grant County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cleveland County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.