Clinton County, Iowa Hail Map & History
Clinton County was hit as recently as 2026-06-28, 78 days ago. Clinton County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-06-28 near Delmar.
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 2026-06-28, around Delmar. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Clinton 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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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 48 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 2017, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
3 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-06-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 6 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.
Hardest-hit places in Clinton County
Reports cluster nearest Clinton -- 8 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Camanche (5), Calamus (4), Dewitt (4) and Wheatland (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Delmar and Grand Mound on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Camanche | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Calamus | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Dewitt | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Wheatland | 2 | 1.25″ |
When it hails in Clinton County
The season runs March through July: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Clinton County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Delmar. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-28 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-21 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Clinton County map
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 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Scott County (31 hail days), Cedar County (25), Jones County (21), Rock Island County, Illinois (24) and Whiteside County, Illinois (26). Clinton County sits in between.
Scott County · Cedar County · Jones County · Rock Island County, Illinois · Whiteside County, Illinois
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Clinton County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.