Van Buren County was hit as recently as 2026-06-01, 60 days ago. Van Buren County is hit in most years. 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 2023-08-06 near Chimes.
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 2026-06-01, around Clinton Municipal A. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Van Buren 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 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 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-08-06. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 10 of the 22 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 Clinton -- 8 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Botkinburg (4), Damascus (3), Shirley (3) and Bee Branch (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Shirley | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ene Botkinburg | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Botkinburg | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Damascus | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Clinton Municipal A. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-06 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-14 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-15 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-19 | 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: Searcy County (14 hail days), Cleburne County (15) and Conway County (31). Van Buren County sits in between.
Searcy County · Cleburne County · Conway County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Van Buren County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.