Lafayette County was hit as recently as 2026-05-31, 61 days ago. Lafayette County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-30 near Lexington.
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 2026-05-31, around Lexington. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lafayette 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 50 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
4 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-03-12. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 26 days.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Waverly -- 7 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Odessa (7), Higginsville (5), Mayview (4) and Lexington (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Wellington, Bates City, Aullville and Concordia on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Odessa | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Waverly | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Higginsville | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Wellington | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Mayview | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through August: 23 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (19%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, September and December, outside that window. January, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lexington. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-13 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-12 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2023-09-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-30 | 3.50″ | 3 |
| 2020-08-15 | 1.50″ | 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 3.5 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: Ray County (23 hail days), Johnson County (38) and Carroll County (14). Lafayette County sits in between.
Ray County · Johnson County · Carroll County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lafayette County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.