Historical hail archive: January 2016–December 2025. NOAA radar estimates within 25 miles of each city centre. ZIP matches use the first three digits; this is not a property-level report or a live alert service. Coverage and source.
Pulaski County · Arkansas · NOAA radar record 2016–2025
Hail damage in Little Rock, AR
Radar has detected hail over Little Rock on 292 separate days since 2016. On 90 of them the largest stone was estimated at golf-ball size or bigger. The biggest was 10.2 cm on May 8, 2024.
A high value in this historical exposure model. Radar estimates do not establish what reached a property or whether it was damaged.
How we got to that number
| Component | Value | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency Hail days per year at 1.00 in (2.5 cm) or larger | 57 / 100 | × 0.35 | 20.0 |
| Severity Largest stone radar estimated in the whole window | 100 / 100 | × 0.30 | 30.0 |
| Recency How long since the last 2 in (5 cm) day | 92 / 100 | × 0.20 | 18.4 |
| Concentration Hail days per year reaching golf-ball size | 45 / 100 | × 0.15 | 6.8 |
| RoofTake Score | 75 | ||
The score describes an area, not a house. Two roofs on the same street of different ages face very different risk from the identical storm. The whole formula and its weights are on the methodology page, and you can recompute it yourself from our public data.
Arkansas hail season is bimodal: a spring peak and a smaller autumn one.
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Data last refreshed: · source: NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory, dataset nx3hail
The ten biggest hail days in Little Rock since 2016
| Date | Radar max size | Metric | Comparison | Signatures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 23, 2016 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 2 |
| April 12, 2022 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 54 |
| June 14, 2023 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 57 |
| May 8, 2024 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 51 |
| April 2, 2025 | 3.00 in | 7.6 cm | Teacup | 79 |
| March 13, 2016 | 2.75 in | 7.0 cm | Baseball | 44 |
| July 14, 2016 | 2.75 in | 7.0 cm | Baseball | 35 |
| April 22, 2017 | 2.75 in | 7.0 cm | Baseball | 6 |
| March 11, 2018 | 2.75 in | 7.0 cm | Baseball | 44 |
| June 6, 2020 | 2.75 in | 7.0 cm | Baseball | 123 |
"Signatures" is the number of separate radar volume scans that detected hail in a storm cell within 25 miles that day. More signatures means a longer-lived or larger storm, not necessarily bigger stones.
Hail days by year
Busiest year in the record: 2025 with 39 hail days.
Hail days by month
Peak month: June. Hail season in Arkansas is short and it is not distributed evenly — most of the annual risk arrives in a few weeks.
What to do with this if you own a roof in Little Rock
- Find your dates. Look up your ZIP for the record nearest you, and note every day at 1.00 in or above since you bought the house.
- Work out whether your roof could have survived them. A twelve-year-old asphalt roof and a two-year-old one respond very differently to the same stone — the age calculator explains why.
- Look, before you file. Nine photographs, none of them requiring you to get on the roof.
- Check the arithmetic. If the actual cash value of the damage is under your deductible, filing pays nothing — work it out first.
- Then write. The letter generator puts the Little Rock radar record and the NOAA citation into your notice of claim.
Every hail day radar recorded near Little Rock
292 days, most recent first. Sizes are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in the cell, not measurements at any address.
- September 24, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- September 19, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- September 17, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- September 16, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- September 15, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- August 19, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- August 17, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- August 16, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- August 15, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 31, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 30, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 29, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 15, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 12, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 10, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 7, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- June 23, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- June 19, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- June 18, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- June 17, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 14, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- June 13, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 8, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 7, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 25, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- May 24, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 20, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 18, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- May 17, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- May 2, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- April 21, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- April 20, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- April 5, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- April 4, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- April 3, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- April 2, 20253.00 in (7.6 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- March 31, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- March 15, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- March 13, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- August 19, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 17, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 5, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- June 30, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 9, 20242.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- May 27, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 25, 20242.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- May 24, 20242.75 in (7.0 cm) — Baseball size, radar-estimated
- May 23, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 22, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- May 8, 20244.00 in (10.2 cm) — Grapefruit size, radar-estimated
- May 4, 20242.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- April 27, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- April 26, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- April 25, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- April 19, 20241.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- April 16, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- April 9, 20241.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- March 15, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- March 5, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- March 4, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
Showing the 60 most recent of 292. The full record is in the JSON we publish: little-rock-ar.json.
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Hail in Little Rock, AR: common questions
How often does Little Rock get damaging hail?
Radar recorded 292 hail days within 25 miles of the city centre between 2016 and 2025 — an average of 29.2 a year, of which 9.0 a year were at golf-ball size or larger. Not every one of those damages roofs.
When is hail season in Little Rock?
The busiest month in this record is June, and 2025 was the busiest single year with 39 hail days.
Does this mean my roof is damaged?
No. These are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in a storm cell somewhere within 25 miles of the city centre. Whether anything landed on your street, and whether it damaged your particular roof, needs somebody to look.
How do I use this for an insurance claim?
A specific date with a public, citable source is what turns 'sometime last year' into a date of loss. Use the claim letter generator, which pulls the date and the NOAA citation in for you.
Why 25 miles?
It is wide enough to catch storms that clipped the metro and narrow enough that the number still means something for a house inside it. The same radius is used for every metro so the pages are comparable.
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