Lane County was hit as recently as 2026-06-20, 41 days ago. Lane County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-05-14 near Amy.
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 Dighton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lane 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 37 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 64 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2024, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
4 of the 37 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2025-04-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 11 of the 37 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 Dighton -- 19 of the county's 37 hail days -- then Amy (9), Healy (8), Pendennis (6) and Shields (5). That one town is named on 51% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Alamota on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dighton | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Amy | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 2 N Amy | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Shields | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Healy | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 30 of the 37 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, 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 | 5 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Dighton. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-23 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-08-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-07 | 1.75″ | 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 2.75 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: Scott County (61 hail days), Ness County (62) and Gove County (56). Every one of them takes more hail than Lane County.
Scott County · Ness County · Gove County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lane County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.