Scott County was hit as recently as 2026-06-21, 40 days ago. Scott 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 2025-05-18 near Scott State Lake.
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 2026-06-21, around Scott State Lake. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Scott 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 61 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 119 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 2010, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
13 of the 61 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-05-18. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 23 of the 61 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 Scott City -- 22 of the county's 61 hail days -- then Scott State Lake (16), Modoc (12), Shallow Water (10) and Manning (9). Beyond those, NOAA names Friend and Grigston on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Scott City | 9 | 2.00″ |
| 4 E Modoc | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Modoc | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Ne Modoc | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 7 Wsw Shallow Water | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 52 of the 61 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 19 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Scott State Lake. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-03 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 4.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-23 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2024-08-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-28 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Lane County (37 hail days), Wichita County (46) and Finney County (54). Scott County takes more hail than any of them.
Lane County · Wichita County · Finney County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Scott County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.