Cedar County was hit as recently as 2026-07-03, 28 days ago. Cedar County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-06-22 near Mechanicsville.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Iowa. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-07-03, around Durant. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cedar 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. Those days carry 55 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
5 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2022-09-18. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 10 of the 24 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Durant -- 6 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Lowden (6), Tipton (5), Clarence (3) and Rochester (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Bennett, Stanwood, Mechanicsville, Sunbury and West Liberty on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Durant | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Lowden | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Tipton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Clarence | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 1 NE Rochester | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 21 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (21%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Durant. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-02 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-21 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.50″ | 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 2.75 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: Muscatine County (21 hail days), Jones County (21) and Johnson County (33). Cedar County sits in between.
Muscatine County · Jones County · Johnson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cedar County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.