The most recent reported hail day was 2025-11-17, 256 days ago. Benton County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-26 near Palo Pinto.
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 2025-11-17, around Knobby. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Benton 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 42 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 2024, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 28 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2024-05-26. 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 Warsaw -- 8 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Cole Camp (7), Lincoln (6), Palo Pinto (3) and Racket (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Edmonson and Edwards on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Warsaw | 5 | 1.00″ |
| 3 WNW Cole Camp | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Lincoln | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nw Cole Camp | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 S Lincoln | 2 | 1.00″ |
Benton County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 86% of the 28 days on record. May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (21%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, October, November and December, outside that window. January are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Knobby. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 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 2.5 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: Henry County (25 hail days), Morgan County (28) and Pettis County (27). Benton County sits in between.
Henry County · Morgan County · Pettis County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Benton County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.