Sebastian County was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Sebastian County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-25 near Hartford.
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 2026-05-08, around Fort Smith. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sebastian 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 47 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 89 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 17 days since 2022.
8 of the 47 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-25. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 16 of the 47 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 Fort Smith -- 19 of the county's 47 hail days -- then Greenwood (7), Lavaca (6), Hartford (5) and Rye Hill (5). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Bonanza, Midland, Huntington, Mansfield, Witcherville, Barling, Mill Creek, Van Buren and Hackett on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Smith | 14 | 2.50″ |
| Greenwood | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Lavaca | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Midland | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Hartford | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 40 of the 47 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, July, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 6 |
| April | 18 |
| May | 16 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Fort Smith. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-25 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-24 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-01 | 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 2.5 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, over the state line included: Crawford County (27 hail days), Franklin County (29), Scott County (15), Le Flore County, Oklahoma (51) and Sequoyah County, Oklahoma (29). Sebastian County sits in between.
Crawford County · Franklin County · Scott County · Le Flore County, Oklahoma · Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sebastian County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.