The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Wright County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-03-27 near Hartville.
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 2026-04-28, around Norwood. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wright 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 77 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 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
9 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 14 of the 39 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 Hartville -- 11 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Mansfield (11), Grovespring (9), Mountain Grove (7) and Norwood (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Dawson, Manes, Graff and Odin on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Grovespring | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Hartville | 6 | 3.00″ |
| Mansfield | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Mountain Grove | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Norwood | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs February through May: 34 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (36%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, July, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 3 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Norwood. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-26 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 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 3 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: Douglas County (42 hail days), Webster County (37) and Texas County (37). Wright County sits in between.
Douglas County · Webster County · Texas County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wright County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.