The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-26, 127 days ago. Van Buren County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-06-13 near Keosauqua.
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 2026-03-26, around Mount Sterling. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Van Buren 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 61 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 6 of the 29 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 29 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2024-06-13. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 11 of the 29 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 Cantril -- 7 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Farmington (6), Keosauqua (5), Douds/Leando (5) and Bonaparte (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Mount Sterling, Lebanon, Selma and Birmingham on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Farmington | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Bonaparte | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Keosauqua | 2 | 3.00″ |
| 2 Ese Keosauqua | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 SSE Selma | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 26 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). June is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (48%). 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, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Mount Sterling. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-13 | 3.00″ | 11 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-29 | 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 3 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: Jefferson County (17 hail days), Henry County (20), Lee County (31), Scotland County, Missouri (20) and Clark County, Missouri (22). Van Buren County sits in between.
Jefferson County · Henry County · Lee County · Scotland County, Missouri · Clark County, Missouri
Back to the Iowa hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Van Buren County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.