Coles County was hit as recently as 2026-06-17, 44 days ago. Coles County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-06-17 near Humboldt.
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 2026-06-17, around Humboldt. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Coles 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 39 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 10 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 22 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2026-06-17. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Charleston -- 9 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Mattoon (4), Ashmore (3), Etna (2) and Lerna (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Paradise on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Ashmore | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Lerna | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Mattoon | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 N Humboldt | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). May 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 July, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Humboldt. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | 3.00″ | 5 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-13 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 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 3 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: Douglas County (13 hail days), Clark County (16) and Moultrie County (16). Coles County takes more hail than any of them.
Douglas County · Clark County · Moultrie County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Coles County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.