The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-04, 149 days ago. Marion County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-05-11 near Bull Shoals.
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 2026-03-04, around Dodd City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marion 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 33 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
2 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2020-05-03. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 19 days.
Across the whole of Arkansas, see the Arkansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Yellville -- 6 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Flippin (5), Dodd City (4), Bull Shoals (3) and Peel (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Ralph on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Flippin | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Yellville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Dodd City | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 3 W Bull Shoals | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Ralph | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (37%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in June, July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 7 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Dodd City. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-03 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-06-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
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 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: Baxter County (41 hail days), Boone County (32), Searcy County (14) and Ozark County, Missouri (25). Marion County sits in between.
Baxter County · Boone County · Searcy County · Ozark County, Missouri
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Marion County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.