The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Barry County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2026-04-28 near Pleasant Ridge.
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 2026-04-28, around Pleasant Ridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Barry 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 53 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 124 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 4 of the 53 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2026-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in February, not April. 15 of the 53 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 Cassville -- 15 of the county's 53 hail days -- then Monett (11), Purdy (10), Shell Knob (9) and Eagle Rock (7). Beyond those, NOAA names Washburn, Seligman, Exeter, Golden, Butterfield, Wheaton, Jenkins, Wayne and Madry on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Monett | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Purdy | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Cassville | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Exeter | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Seligman | 4 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through July: 44 of the 53 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 10 |
| April | 15 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Pleasant Ridge. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2024-05-25 | 2.50″ | 6 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Stone County (50 hail days), Lawrence County (42), McDonald County (41) and Carroll County, Arkansas (22). Barry County takes more hail than any of them.
Stone County · Lawrence County · McDonald County · Carroll County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Barry County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.