The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-17 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Huerfano County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-08-14 near Spanish Peaks.
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 2025-06-17, around Colorado City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Huerfano 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 4 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Huerfano County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. 4 of the 13 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 Walsenburg -- 9 of the county's 13 hail days -- then La Veta (3) and Spanish Peaks (2). That one town is named on 69% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Wsw Walsenburg | 3 | 1.50″ |
| La Veta | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 5 Ne Spanish Peaks | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 S Walsenburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Sse Walsenburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (92%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| August | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Colorado City. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-17 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-16 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2018-08-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-25 | 1.00″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Pueblo County (76 hail days), Custer County (14) and Las Animas County (51). Every one of them takes more hail than Huerfano County.
Pueblo County · Custer County · Las Animas County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Huerfano County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.