Menard County was hit as recently as 2026-05-04, 88 days ago. Menard 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 2025-05-15 near Athens.
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 Atterberry. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Menard 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 2 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 Menard County: all 16 hail days on record topped out below that. 5 of the 16 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 Petersburg -- 5 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Athens (4), Greenview (3) and Tallula (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Athens | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Petersburg | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 E Tallula | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Petersburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 N Athens | 1 | 1.75″ |
Menard County has no tight season -- it takes 8 months (January through August) to account for 81% of the 16 days on record. May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, October and November, outside that window. July and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Atterberry. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-15 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-10-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-16 | 1.75″ | 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 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: Sangamon County (48 hail days), Logan County (18) and Morgan County (24). Every one of them takes more hail than Menard County.
Sangamon County · Logan County · Morgan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Menard County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.