The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-16, 106 days ago. Scott County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.25 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-04-08 near Sikeston.
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 2026-04-16, around Oran. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Scott 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 28 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2020-04-08. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 6 of the 17 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 Benton -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Scott City (5), Sikeston (3) and Oran (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Benton | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Scott City | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Sikeston | 2 | 2.25″ |
| Oran | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Miner | 1 | 2.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (47%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Oran. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-11-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 2.25″ | 5 |
| 2019-06-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2018-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 2.25 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: Cape Girardeau County (21 hail days), Stoddard County (20) and Bollinger County (22). Every one of them takes more hail than Scott County.
Cape Girardeau County · Stoddard County · Bollinger County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Scott County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.