Ford County was hit as recently as 2026-07-09, 22 days ago. Ford County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-05-24 near Dodge City.
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 2026-07-09, around Spearville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ford 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 98 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 5.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 263 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 2012, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 25 days since 2022.
22 of the 98 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-06-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 42 of the 98 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 Dodge City -- 38 of the county's 98 hail days -- then Ford (19), Bucklin (14), Ft. Dodge (14) and Spearville (13). Beyond those, NOAA names Howell, Kingsdown, Bloom, Windhorst, Bellefont, Ensign, Wright, Minneola and Windthorst on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dodge City | 10 | 1.75″ |
| Bucklin | 9 | 2.00″ |
| Spearville | 6 | 2.75″ |
| 2 N Dodge City | 5 | 3.00″ |
| 2 Wnw Dodge City | 4 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 81 of the 98 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 32 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 29 |
| June | 32 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Spearville. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-16 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-01 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-08 | 2.50″ | 5 |
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 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: Hodgeman County (58 hail days), Gray County (59) and Edwards County (45). Ford County takes more hail than any of them.
Hodgeman County · Gray County · Edwards County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ford County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.