Osage County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Osage County was hit as recently as 2026-08-05, 40 days ago. Osage 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 2012-03-28 near Carbondale.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 49 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 132 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 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 8 days since 2022, against 3.4 a year before that.
9 of the 49 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 18 of the 49 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 Osage County
Reports cluster nearest Osage City -- 18 of the county's 49 hail days -- then Overbrook (13), Scranton (7), Carbondale (6) and Lyndon (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Burlingame, Melvern, Auburn, Quenemo and Olivet on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Osage City | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Lyndon | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Overbrook | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 3 S Melvern | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Scranton | 3 | 2.50″ |
When it hails in Osage County
The season runs April through September: 42 of the 49 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March, November and December, outside that window. January and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 18 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 5 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
Recent Osage County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Melvern. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-13 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-09-03 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Osage 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 2.75 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: Shawnee County (63 hail days), Franklin County (36) and Douglas County (30). Osage County sits in between.
Shawnee County · Franklin County · Douglas County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Osage County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.