Rush County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Rush County was hit as recently as 2026-08-18, 27 days ago. Rush County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 6 inches and 6 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-24 near Timken.
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 2026-08-18, around Ash Valley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rush 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 64 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 147 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 2013, with 8 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 12 days since 2022, against 4.3 a year before that.
11 of the 64 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-05-17. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 23 of the 64 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 Rush County
Reports cluster nearest La Crosse -- 14 of the county's 64 hail days -- then Alexander (11), Bison (9), Hargrave (9) and Shaffer (9). Beyond those, NOAA names Rush Center, Otis, Timken, Nekoma, McCracken, Ash Valley, Liebenthal, Ene Alexander and Loretta on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| La Crosse | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Alexander | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Otis | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Rush Center | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Ene Alexander | 4 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Rush County
The season runs April through August: 56 of the 64 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 19 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 10 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 4 |
Recent Rush County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ash Valley. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-17 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.50″ | 7 |
| 2026-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-13 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-28 | 1.75″ | 3 |
How to read the Rush 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 6 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: Pawnee County (57 hail days), Ellis County (73) and Barton County (71). Rush County sits in between.
Pawnee County · Ellis County · Barton County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rush County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.