El Paso County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. El Paso 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 2023-08-05 near Schriever AFB.
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 2026-06-23, around Fountain. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls El Paso 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 182 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 10.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 951 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2023, with 23 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 54 days since 2022.
30 of the 182 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-06-23. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 63 of the 182 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 Colorado Springs -- 52 of the county's 182 hail days -- then Black Forest (49), Peterson AFB (43), Falcon (33) and Air Force Academy (30). Beyond those, NOAA names Security, Fountain, Peyton, Calhan, Monument, Ellicott, Manitou Springs, Schriever AFB and Ramah on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Ssw Black Forest | 11 | 1.25″ |
| 5 Nnw Peterson Afb | 9 | 2.50″ |
| 5 SSW Black Forest | 9 | 1.75″ |
| 5 NE Manitou Springs | 9 | 1.50″ |
| 6 NNE Colorado Springs | 9 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 177 of the 182 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (97%). June is the single busiest month, with 55 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 35 |
| June | 55 |
| July | 51 |
| August | 36 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 22 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Fountain. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 2.50″ | 22 |
| 2026-06-22 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.50″ | 11 |
| 2025-08-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-16 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-06 | 2.00″ | 20 |
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: Teller County (23 hail days), Elbert County (87) and Douglas County (82). El Paso County takes more hail than any of them.
Teller County · Elbert County · Douglas County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, El Paso County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.