Cherokee County was hit as recently as 2026-06-25, 36 days ago. Cherokee County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2020-05-04 near Baxter Springs.
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 2026-06-25, around Weir. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cherokee 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 53 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 110 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
6 of the 53 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2020-08-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 16 of the 53 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 Columbus -- 14 of the county's 53 hail days -- then Riverton (12), Crestline (9), Baxter Springs (5) and Melrose (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Galena, Weir, Neutral, West Mineral, Faulkner, Sherwin, Hallowell, Treece and Lawton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Riverton | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Crestline | 5 | 1.25″ |
| West Mineral | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NW Riverton | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Columbus | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 45 of the 53 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September, October and November, outside that window. January and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 3 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Weir. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-11 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-16 | 1.75″ | 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: Crawford County (38 hail days), Labette County (37), Neosho County (27), Jasper County, Missouri (51) and Ottawa County, Oklahoma (32). Cherokee County takes more hail than any of them.
Crawford County · Labette County · Neosho County · Jasper County, Missouri · Ottawa County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cherokee County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.