Le Flore County was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Le Flore County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2020-05-22 near Heavener.
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 2026-05-08, around Poteau. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Le Flore 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 51 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 104 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
6 of the 51 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-04-25. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 21 of the 51 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 Poteau -- 10 of the county's 51 hail days -- then Wister (7), Cameron (7), Heavener (6) and Pocola (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Spiro, Howe, Arkoma, Octavia, Whitesboro, Panama, Cowlington, Talihina and Bokoshe on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Poteau | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Cameron | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Howe | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Spiro | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Wister | 5 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 41 of the 51 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 22 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. September, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 22 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Poteau. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-25 | 2.50″ | 8 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.25″ | 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, over the state line included: Haskell County (15 hail days), Sequoyah County (29), Latimer County (19), Sebastian County, Arkansas (47) and Scott County, Arkansas (15). Le Flore County takes more hail than any of them.
Haskell County · Sequoyah County · Latimer County · Sebastian County, Arkansas · Scott County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Le Flore County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.