Crawford County was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Crawford County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-04-26 near Van Buren.
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 2026-05-08, around Van Buren. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Crawford 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 52 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 5 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 27 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2023-04-15. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 9 of the 27 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 Van Buren -- 11 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Alma (8), Mountainburg (6), Mulberry (3) and Kibler (3). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Uniontown and Rudy on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Van Buren | 8 | 4.25″ |
| Alma | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Kibler | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Mulberry | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Uniontown | 2 | 1.25″ |
Crawford County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 85% of the 27 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, November and December, outside that window. January, February and August are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Van Buren. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-13 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-04 | 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 4.25 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: Sebastian County (47 hail days), Franklin County (29), Logan County (24), Sequoyah County, Oklahoma (29) and Adair County, Oklahoma (22). Crawford County sits in between.
Sebastian County · Franklin County · Logan County · Sequoyah County, Oklahoma · Adair County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Crawford County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.