Madison County was hit as recently as 2026-05-04, 88 days ago. Madison County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.75 inches and 3.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-03-14 near Livingston.
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 2026-05-04, around Livingston. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Madison 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 54 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 273 separate reports between them, better than 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 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
10 of the 54 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-05-04. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 21 of the 54 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 Granite City -- 16 of the county's 54 hail days -- then Glen Carbon (12), Wood River (12), Collinsville (11) and Edwardsville (10). Beyond those, NOAA names Troy, Godfrey, Alton, Bethalto, Marine, Maryville, Pontoon Beach, Highland and Roxana on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Granite City | 13 | 2.50″ |
| Collinsville | 10 | 3.00″ |
| Wood River | 10 | 1.00″ |
| Troy | 8 | 2.00″ |
| Edwardsville | 8 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 45 of the 54 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. September and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 18 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 3 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Livingston. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-04 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2026-05-03 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2.00″ | 16 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.75″ | 15 |
| 2024-05-26 | 2.00″ | 12 |
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 3.75 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: St. Clair County (47 hail days), Clinton County (15), Macoupin County (38), St. Louis City, Missouri (26) and St. Louis County, Missouri (67). Madison County sits in between.
St. Clair County · Clinton County · Macoupin County · St. Louis City, Missouri · St. Louis County, Missouri
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Madison County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.