The most recent reported hail day was 2024-08-15 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Des Moines County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2015-07-16 near Burlington.
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 2024-08-15, around Danville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Des Moines 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 39 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 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 7 days since 2022.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2021-07-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Burlington -- 6 of the county's 21 hail days -- then West Burlington (6), Mediapolis (3) and Danville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 E West Burlington | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Mediapolis | 2 | 1.00″ |
| West Burlington | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 N Burlington | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 Ese Burlington Region | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March, September and October, outside that window. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Danville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-15 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-06-13 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-10 | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Lee County (31 hail days), Henry County (20), Van Buren County (29), Warren County, Illinois (21) and Hancock County, Illinois (36). Des Moines County sits in between.
Lee County · Henry County · Van Buren County · Warren County, Illinois · Hancock County, Illinois
Back to the Iowa hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Des Moines County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.