Macoupin County was hit as recently as 2026-05-03, 89 days ago. Macoupin County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2015-04-09 near Gillespie.
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 2026-05-03, around Plainview. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Macoupin 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. Those days carry 76 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, 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 2024-05-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 13 of the 38 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 Bunker Hill -- 9 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Carlinville (8), Brighton (4), Mount Olive (4) and Gillespie (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Dorchester, Virden, Nilwood, Chesterfield, Plainview, White City, Benld, Staunton and Girard on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bunker Hill | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Mount Olive | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Brighton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Dorchester | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Virden | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 33 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). April is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 15 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Plainview. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-06 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-23 | 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 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: Montgomery County (18 hail days), Madison County (54) and Morgan County (24). Macoupin County sits in between.
Montgomery County · Madison County · Morgan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Macoupin County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.