The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Bourbon County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-04-07 near Fort Scott.
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 2026-04-26, around Fort Scott. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bourbon 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 40 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
5 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-06-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 26 days.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Fort Scott -- 8 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Devon (6), Bronson (5), Fulton (4) and Hiattville (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Uniontown on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Scott | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Devon | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Hiattville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Fulton | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 1 N Bronson | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 21 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Fort Scott. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-10-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-21 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2020-05-04 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-26 | 2.00″ | 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 2.5 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: Linn County (24 hail days), Crawford County (38), Allen County (28) and Vernon County, Missouri (27). Bourbon County sits in between.
Linn County · Crawford County · Allen County · Vernon County, Missouri
Back to the Kansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bourbon County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.