Macon County was hit as recently as 2026-05-04, 88 days ago. Macon 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 2024-05-26 near Macon.
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 2026-05-04, around Excello. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Macon 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 31 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 67 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 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
5 of the 31 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-05-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 10 of the 31 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 Macon -- 11 of the county's 31 hail days -- then Ethel (7), Atlanta (5), La Plata (5) and Bevier (4). Beyond those, NOAA names New Cambria, Excello, Callao and South Gifford on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| La Plata | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Excello | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 1 S Macon | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 W Ethel | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 SE Macon | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 25 of the 31 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (23%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, March, September and October, outside that window. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Excello. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-26 | 3.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.75″ | 7 |
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: Adair County (22 hail days), Randolph County (19) and Linn County (15). Macon County takes more hail than any of them.
Adair County · Randolph County · Linn County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Macon County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.