Las Animas County was hit as recently as 2026-06-24, 37 days ago. Las Animas County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.25 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-08-04 near Kim.
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 2026-06-24, around Cokedale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Las Animas 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 51 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 104 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 2010, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 16 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 15 of the 51 days reached 2 inches or more, 29% of them, the last on 2025-08-04. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 25 of the 51 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 Kim -- 18 of the county's 51 hail days -- then Trinidad (14), Hoehne (6), Cokedale (5) and Boncarbo (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Model, Segundo, Higbee, Aguilar, Branson, Trinchera and Tyrone on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 W Trinidad | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Trinidad | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 18 N Kim | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 1 N Trinidad | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Wsw Boncarbo | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 45 of the 51 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (37%). 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 | 2 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 19 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Cokedale. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-17 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2025-08-10 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-08-04 | 3.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-17 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-06 | 3.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-10-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-05 | 2.00″ | 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 3.25 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: Huerfano County (13 hail days), Otero County (36), Crowley County (27), Colfax County, New Mexico (64) and Union County, New Mexico (70). Las Animas County sits in between.
Huerfano County · Otero County · Crowley County · Colfax County, New Mexico · Union County, New Mexico
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Las Animas County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.