The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Independence County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-10-15 near Bailey.
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 2026-04-27, around Hickory Valley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Independence 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 26 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
3 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2022-10-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 9 of the 26 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 Batesville -- 6 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Pleasant Plains (3), Bailey (2), Newark (2) and Salado (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Oil Trough, Huff, Southside and Cushman on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Batesville | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Pleasant Plains | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Newark | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Oil Trough | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Southside | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 21 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, July, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Hickory Valley. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-10-15 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-09-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-15 | 2.00″ | 5 |
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 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: Jackson County (18 hail days), Cleburne County (15) and Sharp County (24). Independence County takes more hail than any of them.
Jackson County · Cleburne County · Sharp County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Independence County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.