The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-04 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Polk County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-06-19 near Vandervoort.
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 2025-04-04, around Acorn. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Polk 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 45 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 2.0 a year before that.
4 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2025-04-04. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 28 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 Mena -- 14 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Ink (4), Wickes (3), Acorn (2) and Grannis (2). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hatfield, Hatton and Lake Mena on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mena | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Acorn | 2 | 2.25″ |
| Grannis | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Hatfield | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Hatton | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 23 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, August and December, outside that window. September, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 7 reports on the map, the biggest 2.25 inches near Acorn. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-04 | 2.25″ | 7 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-19 | 5.00″ | 5 |
| 2019-03-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 2.50″ | 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 5 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: Scott County (15 hail days), Sevier County (20) and Montgomery County (29). Polk County sits in between.
Scott County · Sevier County · Montgomery County
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Polk County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.