Barton County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Barton County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-06-27 near Claflin.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-10, around Ellinwood. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Barton 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 70 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 178 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 2019, with 9 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 14 days since 2022, against 4.7 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 18 of the 70 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2026-06-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 34 of the 70 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Great Bend -- 32 of the county's 70 hail days -- then Hoisington (19), Ellinwood (14), Claflin (10) and Pawnee Rock (10). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Albert, Galatia, Susank and Great Bend Airport on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Great Bend | 15 | 2.00″ |
| Hoisington | 10 | 2.00″ |
| Pawnee Rock | 5 | 3.00″ |
| 1 E Great Bend | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Albert | 4 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through July: 59 of the 70 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 22 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 14 |
| May | 22 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Ellinwood. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-04 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-06 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2023-10-03 | 3.00″ | 2 |
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 4.25 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: Pawnee County (56 hail days), Stafford County (47) and Rush County (63). Barton County takes more hail than any of them.
Pawnee County · Stafford County · Rush County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Barton County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.