Kit Carson County, Colorado Hail Map & History
Kit Carson County was hit as recently as 2026-08-19, 26 days ago. Kit Carson County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-08-13 near Bethune.
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 2026-08-19, around Seibert. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kit Carson 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 116 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 6.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 325 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 2018, with 14 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 32 days since 2022.
25 of the 116 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-22. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 60 of 116 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Colorado, see the Colorado hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Kit Carson County
Reports cluster nearest Burlington -- 35 of the county's 116 hail days -- then Stratton (34), Bethune (30), Seibert (28) and Flagler (25). Beyond those, NOAA names Vona, Kirk, Joes, Bonny Reservoir, Peconic, Cope and Thurman on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Stratton | 16 | 2.00″ |
| Seibert | 12 | 2.00″ |
| Bethune | 7 | 5.00″ |
| Flagler | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Burlington | 6 | 2.50″ |
When it hails in Kit Carson County
The season runs May through August: 103 of the 116 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 30 of them (26%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. 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 | 30 |
| June | 30 |
| July | 21 |
| August | 22 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 2 |
Recent Kit Carson County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Seibert. 7 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2026-06-08 | 3.00″ | 11 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-21 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-10-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Kit Carson County map
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 5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Cheyenne County (71 hail days), Yuma County (124), Washington County (102) and Sherman County, Kansas (99). Kit Carson County sits in between.
Cheyenne County · Yuma County · Washington County · Sherman County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kit Carson County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.