Finney County was hit as recently as 2026-06-20, 41 days ago. Finney County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-24 near Pierceville.
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 2026-06-20, around Garden City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Finney 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 54 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 126 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2015, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 10 days since 2022, against 3.7 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 15 of the 54 days reached 2 inches or more, 28% of them, the last on 2025-07-08. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 22 of the 54 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 Garden City -- 27 of the county's 54 hail days -- then Friend (13), Kalvesta (11), Holcomb (10) and Plymell (9). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Pierceville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 8 N Garden City | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Holcomb | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Garden City | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 5 WSW Kalvesta | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 1 N Holcomb | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 44 of the 54 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (22%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Garden City. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-08 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-23 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-06-01 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2024-03-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-07 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-20 | 2.50″ | 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 4.25 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: Kearny County (52 hail days), Gray County (59) and Haskell County (40). Finney County sits in between.
Kearny County · Gray County · Haskell County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Finney County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.