Kossuth County was hit as recently as 2026-05-15, 77 days ago. Kossuth County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-06-17 near Ledyard.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Iowa. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-15, around Bancroft. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kossuth 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 57 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
6 of the 32 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2022-04-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 12 of the 32 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Bancroft -- 8 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Wesley (6), Algona (6), Buffalo Center (4) and Swea City (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Lone Rock, Armstrong, Lakota, Burt, Corwith and Titonka on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Algona | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Wesley | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Bancroft | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Titonka | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 W Ledyard | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 26 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Bancroft. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-12 | 2.00″ | 4 |
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 2.75 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: Winnebago County (18 hail days), Hancock County (29) and Palo Alto County (25). Kossuth County takes more hail than any of them.
Winnebago County · Hancock County · Palo Alto County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kossuth County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.