The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-02, 332 days ago. Guthrie County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-07-13 near Panora.
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 2025-09-02, around Yale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Guthrie 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 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 2010, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Guthrie County: all 26 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 26 days.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Bagley -- 6 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Yale (6), Guthrie Center (4), Menlo (3) and Bayard (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Stuart, Panora and S Guthrie Center on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bagley | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 3 NE Yale | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Menlo | 2 | 1.00″ |
| S Guthrie Center | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Se Panora | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through September: 22 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and April, 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 | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Yale. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-09-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-24 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Dallas County (39 hail days), Greene County (24) and Audubon County (16). Guthrie County sits in between.
Dallas County · Greene County · Audubon County
Back to the Iowa hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Guthrie County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.