The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-24, 98 days ago. Pittsburg 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 2020-04-28 near Haileyville.
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 2026-04-24, around Gowen. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pittsburg 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 42 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 84 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 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
4 of the 42 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-09-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 15 of the 42 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 Mcalester -- 13 of the county's 42 hail days -- then Savanna (7), Blanco (6), Hartshorne (6) and Arpelar (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Kiowa, Ashland, Krebs, Crowder, Indianola, Haywood and Scipio on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mcalester | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Blanco | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Arpelar | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Krebs | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Hartshorne | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 35 of the 42 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August, September and November, outside that window. January, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 3 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Gowen. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2023-09-23 | 2.00″ | 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: Hughes County (27 hail days), Latimer County (19) and Coal County (19). Pittsburg County takes more hail than any of them.
Hughes County · Latimer County · Coal County
Back to the Oklahoma hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.