The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-09, 325 days ago. Baca County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-06-25 near Walsh.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Colorado. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-09-09, around Springfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Baca 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 64 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 133 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 2015, with 12 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 12 days since 2022, against 4.3 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 18 of the 64 days reached 2 inches or more, 28% of them, the last on 2025-06-06. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 30 of the 64 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Colorado, see the Colorado hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Springfield -- 20 of the county's 64 hail days -- then Campo (19), Walsh (13), Stonington (11) and Pritchett (9). Beyond those, NOAA names Two Buttes and Vilas on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Walsh | 11 | 4.25″ |
| Springfield | 7 | 4.00″ |
| Two Buttes | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Campo | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 4 Se Stonington | 4 | 2.25″ |
The season runs May through July: 52 of the 64 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 29 of them (45%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 29 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Springfield. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-06 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2025-05-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-06 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 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 4.25 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: Prowers County (60 hail days), Bent County (32), Kiowa County (56), Cimarron County, Oklahoma (47) and Morton County, Kansas (52). Baca County takes more hail than any of them.
Prowers County · Bent County · Kiowa County · Cimarron County, Oklahoma · Morton County, Kansas
Back to the Colorado hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Baca County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.