The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Desha County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 Halley.
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 Rohwer. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Desha 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 15 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: 2018 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
3 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-03-15. 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 McGehee -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Watson (2) and Arkansas City (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| McGehee | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Watson | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 NNE Halley | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Yancopin | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Rohwer | 1 | 2.00″ |
Desha County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (September through March) to account for 85% of the 13 days on record. March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (46%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in May and June, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Rohwer. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-12-28 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-12-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-05 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-02-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2015-03-31 | 2.75″ | 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: Drew County (15 hail days), Chicot County (32), Lincoln County (18) and Bolivar County, Mississippi (28). Every one of them takes more hail than Desha County.
Drew County · Chicot County · Lincoln County · Bolivar County, Mississippi
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Desha County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.