The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Wayne County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2017-05-27 near Piedmont.
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 2026-04-26, around Williamsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wayne 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 28 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 8 days since 2022, against 0.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 15 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2017-05-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 5 of the 15 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 Piedmont -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Greenville (4), Williamsville (4), Gravelton (2) and Mill Spring (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Piedmont | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Greenville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Mill Spring | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Williamsville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Sse Piedmont | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). Hail has also been reported in March and July, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 6 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Williamsville. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-17 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-30 | 1.50″ | 4 |
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: Carter County (26 hail days), Butler County (27) and Bollinger County (22). Every one of them takes more hail than Wayne County.
Carter County · Butler County · Bollinger County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wayne County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.