The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Cape Girardeau 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 2012-03-23 near Jackson.
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 2026-04-26, around Cape Girardeau. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cape Girardeau 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 37 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2014-08-19. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 9 of the 21 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 Jackson -- 8 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Cape Girardeau (8), Delta (2), Fruitland (2) and Millersville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Cape Girardeau | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Jackson | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Delta | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Millersville | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through July: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cape Girardeau. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2019-08-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-09-18 | 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 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: Scott County (17 hail days), Bollinger County (22) and Perry County (15). Cape Girardeau County sits in between.
Scott County · Bollinger County · Perry County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.