The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Washington County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2020-05-04 near Shady Grove.
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 2026-04-28, around Tontitown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Washington 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 49 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 131 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2024, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 18 days since 2022.
9 of the 49 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-28. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 16 of the 49 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 Fayetteville -- 15 of the county's 49 hail days -- then Springdale (9), Johnson (7), West Fork (6) and Shady Grove (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Elkins, Tontitown, Farmington, Lincoln, Wheeler, Oak Grove, Winslow, Savoy and Greenland on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville | 10 | 3.00″ |
| Springdale | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Elkins | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 1 W Springdale | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Farmington | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 40 of the 49 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 14 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 8 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Tontitown. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 2.75″ | 8 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.75″ | 8 |
| 2024-08-18 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-03-14 | 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, over the state line included: Benton County (53 hail days), Madison County (17), Crawford County (27) and Adair County, Oklahoma (22). Washington County sits in between.
Benton County · Madison County · Crawford County · Adair County, Oklahoma
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Washington County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.