The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Chautauqua County is hit in most years. 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 2024-06-25 near Hale.
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 2026-04-17, around Cedar Vale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chautauqua 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 46 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 29 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
4 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-06-25. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 10 of the 29 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 Cedar Vale -- 12 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Sedan (11), Chautauqua (4), Hale (3) and Elgin (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Peru on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Vale | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Sedan | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Chautauqua | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Elgin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 S Cedar Vale | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 24 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, September, October and November, outside that window. January, August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cedar Vale. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-09 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2020-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-11-30 | 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 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, over the state line included: Elk County (19 hail days), Montgomery County (52), Cowley County (63), Washington County, Oklahoma (40) and Osage County, Oklahoma (59). Chautauqua County sits in between.
Elk County · Montgomery County · Cowley County · Washington County, Oklahoma · Osage County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chautauqua County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.