Pocahontas County was hit as recently as 2026-05-15, 77 days ago. Pocahontas County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-08-27 near Plover.
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 2026-05-15, around Pocahontas. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pocahontas 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 42 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2018 alone produced 5 of the 22 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
4 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2022-04-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not August. 7 of the 22 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 Pocahontas -- 7 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Fonda (6), Plover (3), Laurens (2) and Gilmore City (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Havelock on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pocahontas | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Fonda | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nw Pocahontas | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Laurens | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Gilmore City | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 20 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (91%). August is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (23%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. 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 | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pocahontas. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-12 | 2.50″ | 7 |
| 2018-08-28 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2018-08-27 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-30 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 2.75 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: Calhoun County (26 hail days), Buena Vista County (20) and Humboldt County (22). Pocahontas County sits in between.
Calhoun County · Buena Vista County · Humboldt 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, Pocahontas County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.