Adair County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Adair 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 2011-07-12 near Novinger.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Missouri. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-10, around Kirksville Regiona. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Adair 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. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2015, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 22 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2011-07-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. 7 of the 22 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Kirksville -- 10 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Novinger (4), Green Castle (3), Millard (2) and Brashear (2). That one town is named on 45% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kirksville | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Novinger | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 14 Sw Kirksville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 N Kirksville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Ssw Millard | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (36%). 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, September and December, 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 | 3 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Kirksville Regiona. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-05-14 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Schuyler County (13 hail days), Macon County (31) and Putnam County (16). Adair County sits in between.
Schuyler County · Macon County · Putnam County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Adair County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.