Lincoln County was hit as recently as 2026-06-08, 53 days ago. Lincoln 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 2025-08-09 near Karval.
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 2026-06-08, around Punkin Center. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lincoln 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 226 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 2025, with 10 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 34 days since 2022, against 4.4 a year before that.
20 of the 87 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-06-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 49 of 87 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Colorado, see the Colorado hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Limon -- 27 of the county's 87 hail days -- then Karval (20), Hugo (19), Genoa (15) and Arriba (10). Beyond those, NOAA names Punkin Center, Boyero, Forder, Kutch, Thurman, Cedar Point and Wild Horse Point on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Limon | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Hugo | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 4 S Kutch | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 10 S Limon | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 9 S Limon | 3 | 2.25″ |
The season runs June through August: 70 of the 87 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). June is the single busiest month, with 32 of them (37%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, May and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 32 |
| July | 22 |
| August | 16 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 10 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Punkin Center. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | 2.50″ | 10 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-09 | 4.00″ | 29 |
| 2025-08-04 | 3.00″ | 7 |
| 2025-08-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-29 | 2.75″ | 3 |
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: Elbert County (87 hail days), Cheyenne County (71) and Kit Carson County (115). Lincoln County sits in between.
Elbert County · Cheyenne County · Kit Carson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lincoln County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.