The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Dallas County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-04-15 near Urbana.
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 2026-04-28, around Elkland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dallas 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 43 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2013 alone produced 5 of the 25 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
3 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-04-28. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 25 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 Buffalo -- 9 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Urbana (5), Bennett Springs (3), Olive (3) and Pumpkin Center (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Louisburg and Tunas on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | 7 | 1.25″ |
| Urbana | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 3 NW Olive | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 Nnw Urbana | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 S Bennett Springs | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 20 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, July, August and October, 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 | 10 |
| May | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Elkland. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-01 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-17 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 2.75″ | 3 |
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 2.75 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: Polk County (37 hail days), Hickory County (22) and Laclede County (48). Dallas County sits in between.
Polk County · Hickory County · Laclede County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dallas County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.