The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Ozark County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2011-04-19 near Wasola.
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 2026-04-27, around Udall. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ozark 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 47 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2016-04-30. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 25 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 Theodosia -- 6 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Dora (6), Gainesville (4), Bakersfield (4) and Wasola (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Thornfield, Noble, Willhoit and Tecumseh on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dora | 6 | 1.00″ |
| Theodosia | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Bakersfield | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 1 E Theodosia | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Gainesville | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 21 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, September and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Udall. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-12-05 | 1.25″ | 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: Douglas County (42 hail days), Howell County (45), Taney County (34), Baxter County, Arkansas (41) and Marion County, Arkansas (19). Ozark County sits in between.
Douglas County · Howell County · Taney County · Baxter County, Arkansas · Marion County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ozark County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.