Kendall County, Illinois Hail Map & History
Kendall County was hit as recently as 2026-07-27, 49 days ago. Kendall County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4.75 inches and 4.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-06-10 near Minooka.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Illinois. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-07-27, around Shorewood. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kendall 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 55 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 8 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
3 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-04-04. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 8 of the 17 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Kendall County
Reports cluster nearest Oswego -- 6 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Yorkville (6), Minooka (4), Plano (4) and Boulder Hill (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Shorewood, Lisbon, Plattville and Plainfield on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Oswego | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Plano | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Boulder Hill | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Yorkville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nw Oswego | 2 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Kendall County
The season runs March through June: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
Recent Kendall County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Shorewood. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-30 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.25″ | 6 |
| 2024-06-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-19 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2023-04-04 | 3.00″ | 18 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.25″ | 1 |
How to read the Kendall 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 4.75 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: Kane County (44 hail days), Will County (57) and Grundy County (15). Kendall County sits in between.
Kane County · Will County · Grundy County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kendall County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.