Butler County was hit as recently as 2026-06-17, 44 days ago. Butler County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-03-30 near El Dorado Lake.
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 2026-06-17, around El Dorado. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Butler 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 91 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 5.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 275 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2016, with 9 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 31 days since 2022.
11 of the 91 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-04-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 33 of the 91 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 El Dorado -- 30 of the county's 91 hail days -- then Augusta (21), Benton (18), Rose Hill (16) and Leon (15). Beyond those, NOAA names Andover, Douglass, Latham, Cassoday, Burns, Towanda, Potwin, Rosalia and Whitewater on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Augusta | 14 | 1.75″ |
| Rose Hill | 10 | 3.00″ |
| Andover | 10 | 1.75″ |
| El Dorado | 9 | 2.75″ |
| Benton | 8 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 73 of the 91 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 24 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 20 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 20 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 3 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near El Dorado. 7 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-23 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-11-19 | 1.00″ | 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 3 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: Sedgwick County (114 hail days), Harvey County (49) and Cowley County (63). Butler County sits in between.
Sedgwick County · Harvey County · Cowley County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Butler County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.