The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-25, 97 days ago. Craig County is hit in most years. 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 2025-05-23 near Welch.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Oklahoma. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-25, around Vinita. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Craig 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 6 of the 23 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2025-05-23. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 10 of the 23 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Oklahoma, see the Oklahoma hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Vinita -- 11 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Welch (8), Ketchum (5), Hollow (4) and Big Cabin (3). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names White Oak and Bluejacket on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Vinita | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Big Cabin | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Ketchum | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Bluejacket | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 18 W Welch | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 20 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Vinita. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-23 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-15 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2020-07-11 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-05-04 | 2.50″ | 7 |
| 2020-03-27 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-16 | 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 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: Ottawa County (32 hail days), Delaware County (26) and Nowata County (15). Craig County sits in between.
Ottawa County · Delaware County · Nowata County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Craig County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.