Pawnee County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Pawnee County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-05-09 near Ash Valley.
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 2026-06-16, around Garfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pawnee 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 133 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 2018, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 14 of the 56 days reached 2 inches or more, 25% of them, the last on 2024-08-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 21 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 Larned -- 23 of the county's 56 hail days -- then Ash Valley (15), Garfield (10), Rozel (10) and Burdett (7). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Frizell, Sanford, Zook, Nekoma, Alexander and Radium on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Larned | 15 | 2.75″ |
| Burdett | 5 | 4.00″ |
| Garfield | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 5 Se Ash Valley | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 4 Ese Ash Valley | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 52 of the 56 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (93%). May is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (34%). 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 | 8 |
| May | 19 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Garfield. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-16 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-10-03 | 2.75″ | 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 4 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: Rush County (63 hail days), Edwards County (45) and Barton County (70). Pawnee County sits in between.
Rush County · Edwards County · Barton County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pawnee County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.