Marion County was hit as recently as 2026-05-16, 76 days ago. Marion County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-03-30 near Iuka.
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 2026-05-16, around Centralia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marion 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 42 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Marion County: all 21 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Centralia -- 8 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Salem (7), Alma (3), Cartter (2) and Iuka (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Kell and Selmaville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Centralia | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Salem | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Alma | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NNW Cartter | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ne Walnut Hill | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August, September and November, outside that window. January, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Centralia. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-04-07 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-24 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-08-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-02-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-08 | 1.00″ | 3 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Jefferson County (18 hail days), Washington County (18) and Clay County (14). Marion County takes more hail than any of them.
Jefferson County · Washington County · Clay County
Back to the Illinois hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Marion County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.