Rice County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Rice 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 2026-06-10 near Little River.
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 2026-06-10, around Little River. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rice 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 50 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 108 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 2019, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
7 of the 50 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-06-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 14 of the 50 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 Lyons -- 21 of the county's 50 hail days -- then Geneseo (11), Sterling (10), Chase (9) and Little River (7). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Raymond, Frederick, Nickerson, Bushton, Wnw Geneseo, Alden and W Sterling on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lyons | 12 | 1.75″ |
| Geneseo | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Raymond | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Sterling | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Geneseo | 4 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through June: 40 of the 50 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (36%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 18 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 7 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Little River. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-01 | 1.57″ | 3 |
| 2024-06-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.50″ | 1 |
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: Ellsworth County (52 hail days), Reno County (64) and McPherson County (62). Every one of them takes more hail than Rice County.
Ellsworth County · Reno County · McPherson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rice County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.