The most recent reported hail day was 2025-08-04, 361 days ago. Bent County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2023-07-06 near Hasty.
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 2025-08-04, around John Martin Reservo. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bent 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 64 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 2010, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 8 of the 32 days reached 2 inches or more, 25% of them, the last on 2025-08-04. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 13 of the 32 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 Las Animas -- 14 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Fort Lyon (8), Hasty (7), Mcclave (4) and Caddoa (2). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Wiley and Higbee on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Las Animas | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Hasty | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Fort Lyon | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 1 W Las Animas | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 WNW Las Animas | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through July: 27 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (34%). 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 | 1 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near John Martin Reservo. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-04 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-06 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-21 | 2.75″ | 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: Prowers County (60 hail days), Otero County (36) and Kiowa County (56). Every one of them takes more hail than Bent County.
Prowers County · Otero County · Kiowa County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bent County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.