The most recent reported hail day was 2024-03-29 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Muscatine County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-04-04 near Nichols.
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 2024-03-29, around Letts. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Muscatine 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 57 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-04-04. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 21 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 Muscatine -- 10 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Conesville (4), Nichols (3), Fruitland (3) and West Liberty (2). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Conesville | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Muscatine | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Fruitland | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nne Muscatine | 2 | 1.75″ |
| West Liberty | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September and November, outside that window. January, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Letts. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2023-04-04 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2022-08-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-19 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-03-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-07 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2019-04-22 | 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 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: Cedar County (24 hail days), Johnson County (33), Washington County (24) and Mercer County, Illinois (13). Muscatine County sits in between.
Cedar County · Johnson County · Washington County · Mercer 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, Muscatine County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.