Otero County was hit as recently as 2026-06-22, 39 days ago. Otero County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-05 near Manzanola.
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 2026-06-22, around Fowler. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Otero 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 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 71 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 2023, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
5 of the 36 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-07-05. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not May. 15 of the 36 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 Rocky Ford -- 12 of the county's 36 hail days -- then La Junta (10), Manzanola (8), Cheraw (7) and Fowler (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Higbee and Swink on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| La Junta | 8 | 3.00″ |
| 4 SSE Manzanola | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Fowler | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Cheraw | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Rocky Ford | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 29 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (33%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 12 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 10 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Fowler. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-22 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-08 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-05 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-04 | 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 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: Crowley County (27 hail days), Bent County (32) and Pueblo County (76). Otero County sits in between.
Crowley County · Bent County · Pueblo County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Otero County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.