Fayette County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Fayette County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-07-02 near Maynard.
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 2026-07-02, around Maynard. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fayette 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 38 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
5 of the 23 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-07-02. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not July. 7 of the 23 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 Oelwein -- 8 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Westgate (4), Fayette (3), Maynard (2) and Arlington (2). Beyond those, NOAA names West Union, Elgin, Waucoma, Alpha and Wadena on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Oelwein | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Arlington | 2 | 2.00″ |
| West Union | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Elgin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Wadena | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). July is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 3.5 inches near Maynard. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 3.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-09-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-13 | 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 3.5 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: Buchanan County (20 hail days), Bremer County (20) and Clayton County (22). Fayette County takes more hail than any of them.
Buchanan County · Bremer County · Clayton County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Fayette County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.