The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-17, 317 days ago. Comanche 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 2025-09-08 near Wilmore.
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 2025-09-17, around Buttermilk. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Comanche 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 48 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 82 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 9 days since 2022, against 3.2 a year before that.
5 of the 48 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2025-09-08. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 19 of the 48 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 Coldwater -- 22 of the county's 48 hail days -- then Buttermilk (15), Protection (8), Wilmore (5) and Aetna (4). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Sun City and Lake Coldwater on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Coldwater | 8 | 1.75″ |
| 9 Wsw Buttermilk | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 6 N Coldwater | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 3 S Protection | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 5 S Coldwater | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through September: 44 of the 48 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 10 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 11 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 6 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Buttermilk. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-08 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-22 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-12-12 | 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: Kiowa County (43 hail days), Clark County (49), Barber County (40), Harper County, Oklahoma (32) and Woods County, Oklahoma (27). Comanche County sits in between.
Kiowa County · Clark County · Barber County · Harper County, Oklahoma · Woods County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Comanche County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.