Woodford County was hit as recently as 2026-06-17, 44 days ago. Woodford County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-03-31 near Roanoke.
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 Metamora. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Woodford 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 42 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 13 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 24 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2023-04-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Eureka -- 7 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Metamora (5), Congerville (4), Minonk (3) and Secor (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Washburn, Roanoke and El Paso on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Metamora | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Eureka | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Roanoke | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Secor | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Nw Metamora | 2 | 1.00″ |
Woodford County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 92% of the 24 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (25%). 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 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 3 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Metamora. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-12-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-02 | 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 2.5 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: Tazewell County (38 hail days), Peoria County (39) and McLean County (24). Woodford County sits in between.
Tazewell County · Peoria County · McLean County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Woodford County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.