Moultrie County was hit as recently as 2026-06-17, 44 days ago. Moultrie County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2026-06-17 near Cadwell.
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 2026-06-17, around Cadwell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Moultrie 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 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 10 days since 2022, against 0.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2026-06-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 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 Sullivan -- 6 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Lovington (4), Bethany (3), Cadwell (2) and Hammond (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Dalton City on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lovington | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Sullivan | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 4 SW Hammond | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Dalton City | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 3 N Cadwell | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). July is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Cadwell. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-11-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-25 | 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: Macon County (24 hail days), Douglas County (13) and Shelby County (14). Moultrie County sits in between.
Macon County · Douglas County · Shelby County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Moultrie County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.