The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-25, 97 days ago. Hempstead 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 2026-04-25 near Hope.
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 2026-04-25, around Hope. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hempstead 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 5 of the 23 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 23 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2026-04-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 7 of the 23 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 Hope -- 11 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Ozan (6), Nashville (6), Blevins (3) and Washington (2). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hope | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Ozan | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Blevins | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 3 Ene Nashville | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 5 Ene Nashville | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (52%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, September, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Hope. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2023-03-31 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2022-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-12-10 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-22 | 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: Nevada County (18 hail days), Howard County (28) and Pike County (15). Hempstead County sits in between.
Nevada County · Howard County · Pike County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hempstead County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.