Gove County was hit as recently as 2026-06-20, 41 days ago. Gove 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 2024-05-01 near The Monument Rocks.
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 Oakley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gove 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 56 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 150 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 18 days since 2022.
12 of the 56 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-08-03. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 27 of the 56 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 Gove -- 20 of the county's 56 hail days -- then Quinter (15), Grainfield (12), Campus (12) and Grinnell (9). Beyond those, NOAA names Park, Oakley and Pendennis on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Quinter | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Grainfield | 8 | 2.00″ |
| 3 W Gove | 6 | 2.75″ |
| Grinnell | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 11 S Campus | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 47 of the 56 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (32%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, April, 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 | 5 |
| May | 18 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Oakley. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-03 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-09-16 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-07-28 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.50″ | 2 |
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.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Sheridan County (55 hail days), Logan County (83) and Trego County (72). Gove County sits in between.
Sheridan County · Logan County · Trego County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gove County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.