Cheyenne County was hit as recently as 2026-07-10, 21 days ago. Cheyenne County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-06-18 near Cheyenne Wells.
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 2026-07-10, around Wild Horse. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cheyenne 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 71 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 134 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 9 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 14 days since 2022, against 4.8 a year before that.
10 of the 71 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2025-05-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 24 of the 71 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 Kit Carson -- 24 of the county's 71 hail days -- then Cheyenne Wells (17), Arapahoe (16), Firstview (14) and Wild Horse (12). Beyond those, NOAA names Aroya on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kit Carson | 9 | 2.75″ |
| Arapahoe | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Cheyenne Wells | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 12 S Arapahoe | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 10 N Kit Carson | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 63 of the 71 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 6 |
| May | 18 |
| June | 23 |
| July | 10 |
| August | 12 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Wild Horse. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-10 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-23 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2025-04-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
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 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: Kiowa County (56 hail days), Kit Carson County (115), Lincoln County (87), Wallace County, Kansas (55) and Greeley County, Kansas (34). Cheyenne County sits in between.
Kiowa County · Kit Carson County · Lincoln County · Wallace County, Kansas · Greeley County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cheyenne County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.