The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Lucas County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-17 near Russell.
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 2026-04-17, around Russell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lucas 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 26 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.6 a year before that.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-04-17. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 6 of the 14 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 Chariton -- 5 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Lucas (4) and Russell (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chariton | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 3 ENE Russell | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 SE Chariton | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 E Russell | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Chariton | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (43%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Russell. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-15 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2024-06-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-09-17 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-06-18 | 1.00″ | 3 |
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 2.5 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: Wayne County (15 hail days), Monroe County (15) and Clarke County (33). Every one of them takes more hail than Lucas County.
Wayne County · Monroe County · Clarke County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lucas County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.