Barton County was hit as recently as 2026-07-10, 21 days ago. Barton 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 2023-04-15 near Milford.
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 2026-07-10, around Sylvania. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Barton County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
Get free access Check an addressOur US-based call center calls the homeowners in this storm and books roof inspections straight onto your calendar. You work the storm; we fill the schedule. We dial -- you do not have to knock a single door.
See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 44 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 28 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2023-04-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 9 of the 28 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 Golden City -- 7 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Liberal (5), Milford (5), Iantha (4) and Lamar (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Nashville, Oakton, Irwin and Kenoma on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Golden City | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Liberal | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Lamar | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 E Milford | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 3 Ne Liberal | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 23 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Sylvania. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 3.00″ | 9 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-16 | 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: Jasper County (51 hail days), Vernon County (27) and Dade County (18). Barton County sits in between.
Jasper County · Vernon County · Dade County
Back to the Missouri hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Barton County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.