The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Bureau County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.25 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-03-10 near Princeton.
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 2026-04-17, around Buda. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bureau 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 58 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 5 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
3 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2026-03-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 13 of the 30 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 Princeton -- 5 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Buda (5), Bureau (4), New Bedford (4) and La Moille (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Neponset, Tiskilwa, Yorktown, Arlington, Sheffield, Van Orin and Ladd on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Buda | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Bureau | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Princeton | 3 | 2.25″ |
| Yorktown | 2 | 2.00″ |
| La Moille | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 24 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (20%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Buda. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 2.25″ | 5 |
| 2025-05-15 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-19 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2023-04-04 | 2.00″ | 7 |
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 2.25 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: Lee County (18 hail days), La Salle County (32) and Whiteside County (26). Bureau County sits in between.
Lee County · La Salle County · Whiteside County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bureau County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.