Bates County was hit as recently as 2026-06-11, 50 days ago. Bates County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-05-27 near Ballard.
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 2026-06-11, around Montrose. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bates 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 64 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 6 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 23 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 38 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2017-05-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 10 of the 38 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 Adrian -- 11 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Butler (9), Rich Hill (8), Ballard (5) and Amoret (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Amsterdam, Foster, Hume and Passaic on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Butler | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Amoret | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Hume | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Rich Hill | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 32 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September, October and November, outside that window. January, August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Montrose. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-08 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-16 | 1.25″ | 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 4.25 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: Cass County (41 hail days), Vernon County (27), St. Clair County (34), Linn County, Kansas (24) and Miami County, Kansas (24). Bates County sits in between.
Cass County · Vernon County · St. Clair County · Linn County, Kansas · Miami County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bates County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.