The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Washington County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-27 near Piney Park.
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 Piney Park. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Washington 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 67 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 29 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
5 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 13 of the 29 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 Potosi -- 17 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Caledonia (5), Old Mines (4), Cadet (4) and Richwoods (4). That one town is named on 59% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Irondale, Belgrade, Mineral Point and Shirley on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Potosi | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Caledonia | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 7 Wnw Potosi | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Irondale | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 NE Richwoods | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 24 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 4 inches near Piney Park. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 4.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-14 | 1.75″ | 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 4 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: St. Francois County (28 hail days), Iron County (18) and Jefferson County (53). Washington County sits in between.
St. Francois County · Iron County · Jefferson County
Back to the Missouri hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Washington County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.