The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Elk 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 2020-07-11 near Longton.
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 2026-04-26, around Longton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Elk 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-07-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not April. 7 of the 19 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 Howard -- 8 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Longton (4), Elk Falls (4), Moline (3) and Grenola (2). That one town is named on 42% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Howard | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 5 W Howard | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Elk Falls | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Longton | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 E Longton | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through July: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (37%). 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 August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Longton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-17 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-11 | 2.50″ | 4 |
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: Chautauqua County (29 hail days), Wilson County (29) and Greenwood County (44). Every one of them takes more hail than Elk County.
Chautauqua County · Wilson County · Greenwood County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Elk County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.