The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. McDonald County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2011-05-22 near Noel.
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 Rocky Comfort. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls McDonald 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 41 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 77 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2024, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
5 of the 41 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 March, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 10 of the 41 days.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Anderson -- 13 of the county's 41 hail days -- then Pineville (12), Noel (8), Goodman (7) and South West City (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Powell and Rocky Comfort on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Noel | 6 | 2.75″ |
| Pineville | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Goodman | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Anderson | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 1 S Rocky Comfort | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 33 of the 41 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 14 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Rocky Comfort. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.00″ | 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 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, over the state line included: Newton County (50 hail days), Barry County (53), Jasper County (51), Benton County, Arkansas (53) and Delaware County, Oklahoma (26). McDonald County sits in between.
Newton County · Barry County · Jasper County · Benton County, Arkansas · Delaware County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, McDonald County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.