Montgomery County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Montgomery County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-28 near Litchfield.
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 2026-06-10, around Harvel. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Montgomery 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 54 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 18 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
3 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-03-14. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 8 of the 18 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 Litchfield -- 9 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Harvel (3), Nokomis (3), Irving (2) and Butler (2). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Wenonah, Hillsboro, Coffeen, Taylor Springs and White Oak on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Litchfield | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Nokomis | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Hillsboro | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 N Litchfield | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Coffeen | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 16 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in November and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Harvel. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-05-14 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2023-05-07 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2022-06-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.75″ | 6 |
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 4.5 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: Macoupin County (38 hail days), Christian County (29) and Sangamon County (48). Every one of them takes more hail than Montgomery County.
Macoupin County · Christian County · Sangamon County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Montgomery County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.