The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-16, 106 days ago. Butler County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.2 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-03-12 near Poplar Bluff.
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 2026-04-16, around Poplar Bluff. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Butler 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 46 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 27 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2025-05-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 7 of the 27 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 Poplar Bluff -- 13 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Qulin (5), Neelyville (3), Fisk (3) and Hendrickson (3). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Ellsinore on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Poplar Bluff | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Neelyville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Hendrickson | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 4 W Poplar Bluff | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 S Poplar Bluff | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through August: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September and November, outside that window. January, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Poplar Bluff. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-09-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-15 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-04 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-05-04 | 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 3.2 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, over the state line included: Ripley County (24 hail days), Stoddard County (20), Wayne County (15) and Clay County, Arkansas (24). Butler County takes more hail than any of them.
Ripley County · Stoddard County · Wayne County · Clay County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Butler County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.