Ripley County was hit as recently as 2026-05-31, 61 days ago. Ripley County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-28 near Doniphan.
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 2026-05-31, around Oxly. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ripley 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 37 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Ripley County: all 24 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 24 days.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Doniphan -- 9 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Poynor (4), Faridealing (3), Gatewood (3) and Grandin (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Naylor and Oxly on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Doniphan | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Poynor | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Oxly | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 4 Ne Doniphan | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Faridealing | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Oxly. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-18 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Carter County (26 hail days), Butler County (27), Oregon County (21), Randolph County, Arkansas (17) and Clay County, Arkansas (24). Ripley County sits in between.
Carter County · Butler County · Oregon County · Randolph County, Arkansas · Clay County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ripley County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.