Douglas County was hit as recently as 2026-06-08, 53 days ago. Douglas County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-03-06 near Eudora.
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 2026-06-08, around Clinton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Douglas 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 70 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2017-03-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 30 days.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lawrence -- 15 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Baldwin City (9), Eudora (6), Clinton (5) and Lone Star (3). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Pleasant Grove and Lecompton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Baldwin City | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 4 WSW Baldwin City | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Lawrence | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Wnw Lawrence | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 3 WSW Lawrence | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through August: 25 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (23%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, March and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Clinton. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-19 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-17 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-25 | 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 2.5 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: Jefferson County (35 hail days), Franklin County (36) and Leavenworth County (39). Every one of them takes more hail than Douglas County.
Jefferson County · Franklin County · Leavenworth County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Douglas County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.