The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Hickory County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-17 near Preston.
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 Elkton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hickory 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 43 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 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.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-07-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 9 of the 22 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 Pittsburg -- 6 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Nemo (6), Preston (4), Elkton (4) and Cross Timbers (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Quincy, Weaubleau and Hermitage on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elkton | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Pittsburg | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Nemo | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Hermitage | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Quincy | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through July: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, September, October and November, outside that window. August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Elkton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-08 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-21 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-17 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2023-04-15 | 2.00″ | 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 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: Dallas County (25 hail days), Polk County (37) and Benton County (28). Every one of them takes more hail than Hickory County.
Dallas County · Polk County · Benton County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hickory County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.