The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-07 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Pope County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-25 near Gold Hill.
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 2025-05-07, around Economy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pope 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 31 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 52 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 2014, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 31 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-06-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not April. 9 of the 31 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 Dover -- 9 of the county's 31 hail days -- then Russellville (9), Atkins (8), London (2) and Tag (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Pottsville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Russellville | 7 | 1.00″ |
| Atkins | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Dover | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ssw Dover | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Sw Rock Springs | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 25 of the 31 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, August, September and October, outside that window. February, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Economy. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-07 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-01-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.75″ | 6 |
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 3 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: Conway County (31 hail days), Yell County (23) and Johnson County (21). Pope County sits in between.
Conway County · Yell County · Johnson 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, Pope County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.