Douglas County was hit as recently as 2026-06-17, 44 days ago. Douglas County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2014-05-21 near Tuscola.
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 Arthur. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Douglas 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 9 days since 2022, against 0.3 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 4 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more, 31% of them, the last on 2026-06-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Tuscola -- 5 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Arthur (4), Newman (4), Camargo (2) and Hindsboro (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Arcola on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Newman | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Camargo | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Arthur | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Tuscola | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 SW Tuscola | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Arthur. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-25 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-28 | 3.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-15 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Coles County (22 hail days), Moultrie County (16) and Champaign County (31). Every one of them takes more hail than Douglas County.
Coles County · Moultrie County · Champaign County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Douglas County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.