The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-03, 119 days ago. Newton 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 2017-03-09 near Wentworth.
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 2026-04-03, around Redings Mill. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Newton 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 50 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 108 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
6 of the 50 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2024-05-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 14 of the 50 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 Neosho -- 19 of the county's 50 hail days -- then Diamond (8), Seneca (7), Racine (7) and Granby (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Iron Gates, Wentworth, Shoal Creek Drive, Saginaw, Newtonia, Leawood, Goodman, Stark City and Stella on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Neosho | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Seneca | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 1 S Neosho | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 3 S Neosho | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 3 Nw Neosho | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 40 of the 50 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 11 |
| April | 14 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Redings Mill. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-10-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2024-05-08 | 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 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: Jasper County (51 hail days), McDonald County (41), Barry County (53), Ottawa County, Oklahoma (32) and Cherokee County, Kansas (53). Newton County sits in between.
Jasper County · McDonald County · Barry County · Ottawa County, Oklahoma · Cherokee County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Newton County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.