The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Laclede County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2026-04-28 near Bennett Springs.
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 Bennett Springs. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Laclede 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 48 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 83 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2014, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
6 of the 48 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 13 of the 48 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 Lebanon -- 20 of the county's 48 hail days -- then Eldridge (9), Bennett Springs (7), Phillipsburg (7) and Conway (4). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Sleeper, Lynchburg, Falcon and Dry Knob on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 10 | 1.75″ |
| Eldridge | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Phillipsburg | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 2 SE Lebanon | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 S Lebanon | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs January through June: 40 of the 48 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August, October and December, outside that window. September and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 3 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 4 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Bennett Springs. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-26 | 3.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-10-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-25 | 2.75″ | 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 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), Camden County (38) and Pulaski County (33). Laclede County takes more hail than any of them.
Dallas County · Camden County · Pulaski County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Laclede County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.