Monroe County was hit as recently as 2026-06-11, 50 days ago. Monroe County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2012-04-14 near Eddyville.
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 2026-06-11, around Albia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Monroe 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 23 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2021-06-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Albia -- 8 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Melrose (5), Eddyville (2) and Lovilia (2). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Albia | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 E Melrose | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 3 Ssw Albia | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Sw Eddyville | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 5 Ssw Melrose | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Albia. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-21 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-09-17 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2021-06-18 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-15 | 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 2.5 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: Appanoose County (18 hail days), Marion County (30) and Wapello County (18). Every one of them takes more hail than Monroe County.
Appanoose County · Marion County · Wapello 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, Monroe County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.