Linn County was hit as recently as 2026-05-16, 76 days ago. Linn County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2011-06-09 near Bucklin.
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 2026-05-16, around Linneus. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Linn 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 27 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2026 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 8 days since 2022, against 0.6 a year before that.
3 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-05-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 5 of the 15 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 Bucklin -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Meadville (4), Browning (3), Purdin (3) and Brookfield (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Saint Catherine on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bucklin | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 5 S Meadville | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 4 W Purdin | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Brookfield | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 E Linneus | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Linneus. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-16 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-23 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.50″ | 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: Livingston County (20 hail days), Sullivan County (21) and Grundy County (33). Every one of them takes more hail than Linn County.
Livingston County · Sullivan County · Grundy County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Linn County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.