The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-26 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Little River 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 2023-06-13 near Winthrop.
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 2025-04-26, around Ashdown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Little River 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2021, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
4 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2023-06-13. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 17 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 Foreman -- 8 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Winthrop (6), Ashdown (6) and Wilton (2). That one town is named on 47% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Winthrop | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Foreman | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Ashdown | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 5 Ne Ashdown | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Ene Winthrop | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs January through June: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ashdown. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-12-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-03-24 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-03-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-28 | 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, over the state line included: Sevier County (20 hail days), Howard County (28), Hempstead County (23) and Bowie County, Texas (38). Every one of them takes more hail than Little River County.
Sevier County · Howard County · Hempstead County · Bowie County, Texas
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Little River County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.