Kiowa County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Kiowa County was hit as recently as 2026-09-12, 2 days ago. Kiowa County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-05-13 near Greensburg.
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 2026-09-12, around Wilmore. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kiowa 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 44 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 90 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 2015, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 3.2 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 11 of the 44 days reached 2 inches or more, 25% of them, the last on 2026-09-12. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 15 of the 44 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Kiowa County
Reports cluster nearest Greensburg -- 21 of the county's 44 hail days -- then Mullinville (18), Haviland (14) and Wilmore (3). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Greensburg | 8 | 2.50″ |
| Mullinville | 8 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Greensburg | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Haviland | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 3 Ssw Haviland | 3 | 1.00″ |
When it hails in Kiowa County
The season runs April through August: 36 of the 44 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 7 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 6 |
| October | 2 |
Recent Kiowa County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Wilmore. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-10-03 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2022-05-14 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-08-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
How to read the Kiowa County map
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 3 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Edwards County (45 hail days), Comanche County (49) and Pratt County (50). Every one of them takes more hail than Kiowa County.
Edwards County · Comanche County · Pratt County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kiowa County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.