The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-19 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Adams County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-05-11 near Payson.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Illinois. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-19, around Quincy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Adams 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 114 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 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 7 days since 2022, against 2.8 a year before that.
6 of the 40 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-06-24. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 10 of the 40 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Quincy -- 16 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Payson (8), Liberty (6), Beverly (4) and Richfield (4). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Golden, Coatsburg, Camp Point, Marblehead, Ursa, Kingston, Paloma, Clayton and Lima on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Payson | 7 | 4.50″ |
| Quincy | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Liberty | 5 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Quincy | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Beverly | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 33 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September, November and December, outside that window. January, August and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 3 |
| September | 3 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Quincy. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-02 | 1.25″ | 6 |
| 2023-06-24 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-31 | 3.50″ | 13 |
| 2022-05-13 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 4.5 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: Brown County (14 hail days), Pike County (16), Hancock County (36), Marion County, Missouri (21) and Lewis County, Missouri (28). Adams County takes more hail than any of them.
Brown County · Pike County · Hancock County · Marion County, Missouri · Lewis County, Missouri
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Adams County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.