Yuma County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Yuma 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 2023-08-08 near Idalia.
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 2026-07-02, around Idalia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Yuma 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 123 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 7.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 367 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 2023, with 13 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 44 days since 2022.
27 of the 123 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-22. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 53 of the 123 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 Yuma -- 35 of the county's 123 hail days -- then Wray (30), Vernon (24), Idalia (23) and Clarkville (22). Beyond those, NOAA names Eckley, Wauneta, Laird, Kirk, Abarr, Joes, Alvin, Beecher Island and Heartstrong on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Yuma | 16 | 3.00″ |
| Wray | 11 | 2.75″ |
| 4 NNE Wray | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Clarkville | 7 | 1.75″ |
| 5 NE Vernon | 6 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 112 of the 123 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). June is the single busiest month, with 39 of them (32%). 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 | 5 |
| May | 25 |
| June | 39 |
| July | 23 |
| August | 25 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Idalia. 7 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 4.00″ | 5 |
| 2026-06-20 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.56″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-10-16 | 1.75″ | 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 5 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: Washington County (102 hail days), Phillips County (42), Kit Carson County (115), Cheyenne County, Kansas (73) and Dundy County, Nebraska (59). Yuma County takes more hail than any of them.
Washington County · Phillips County · Kit Carson County · Cheyenne County, Kansas · Dundy County, Nebraska
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Yuma County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.