White County was hit as recently as 2026-05-31, 61 days ago. White County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-04-02 near Worden.
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 2026-05-31, around Searcy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls White 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 53 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
5 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-04-02. They land in the same month as everything else, April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 38 days.
Across the whole of Arkansas, see the Arkansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Searcy -- 8 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Pangburn (5), Bald Knob (4), El Paso (4) and Rose Bud (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Judsonia, McRae, Beebe, Center Hill, Hart, Gravel Hill, Kensett and Steprock on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Searcy | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Pangburn | 4 | 2.00″ |
| McRae | 2 | 2.25″ |
| Rose Bud | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Center Hill | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through August: 33 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (87%). April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, October and November, outside that window. September and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Searcy. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-07 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-11 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-09 | 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 2.75 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: Cleburne County (15 hail days), Lonoke County (39) and Independence County (26). White County sits in between.
Cleburne County · Lonoke County · Independence County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, White County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.