Dickinson County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Dickinson County was hit as recently as 2026-08-18, 27 days ago. Dickinson County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-06-01 near Abilene.
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 2026-08-18, around Milford. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dickinson 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 62 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 185 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 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 20 days since 2022.
11 of the 62 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-09-03. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 20 of the 62 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Dickinson County
Reports cluster nearest Abilene -- 22 of the county's 62 hail days -- then Enterprise (13), Carlton (13), Hope (11) and Moonlight (10). Beyond those, NOAA names Chapman, Solomon, Woodbine, Herington, Talmage, Manchester and Ese Abilene on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Abilene | 10 | 2.75″ |
| Hope | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Enterprise | 5 | 4.00″ |
| Solomon | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Herington | 5 | 1.00″ |
When it hails in Dickinson County
The season runs April through July: 53 of the 62 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 24 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, 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 |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Dickinson County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Milford. 6 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2025-09-03 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.25″ | 3 |
How to read the Dickinson County map
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 4.5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Geary County (40 hail days), Saline County (46) and Clay County (32). Dickinson County takes more hail than any of them.
Geary County · Saline County · Clay County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dickinson County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.