The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Prairie 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 2024-05-24 near Slovak.
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 2026-02-26, around Des Arc. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Prairie 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 22 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 2011, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2024-05-24. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 5 of the 18 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 Des Arc -- 5 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Slovak (4), Stuttgart (4), Hickory Plains (2) and De Valls Bluff (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Hazen on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Slovak | 3 | 4.00″ |
| Des Arc | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 4 W Stuttgart | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Hickory Plains | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Hickory Plains | 1 | 1.50″ |
Prairie County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (January through July) to account for 83% of the 18 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, October and December, outside that window. August and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Des Arc. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-24 | 4.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-30 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-11 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-06-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-10-06 | 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 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: Lonoke County (39 hail days), Arkansas County (18) and White County (38). Prairie County sits in between.
Lonoke County · Arkansas County · White 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, Prairie County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.