Elbert County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Elbert County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-07-03 near Agate.
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 Fondis. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Elbert 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 87 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 5.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 254 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2023, with 13 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 30 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 23 of the 87 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2026-06-23. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 36 of the 87 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 Kiowa -- 21 of the county's 87 hail days -- then Matheson (19), Elizabeth (17), Simla (16) and Agate (15). Beyond those, NOAA names Elbert, Ponderosa Park, Limon, Cedar Point, Fondis, Deer Trail, Kutch, Ramah and Arapahoe Park on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Simla | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Agate | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 13 Ene Kiowa | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 5 NE Ponderosa Park | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 8 ENE Matheson | 4 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 82 of the 87 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (94%). June is the single busiest month, with 33 of them (38%). 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 | 3 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 33 |
| July | 23 |
| August | 13 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Fondis. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2026-06-08 | 3.40″ | 4 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-08-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-09 | 3.00″ | 16 |
| 2025-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-17 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 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 3.5 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: Douglas County (82 hail days), Arapahoe County (82) and El Paso County (182). Elbert County sits in between.
Douglas County · Arapahoe County · El Paso County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Elbert County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.