Sedgwick County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Sedgwick County was hit as recently as 2026-08-06, 39 days ago. Sedgwick County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-06-09 near Mount Hope.
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 2026-08-06, around Haysville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sedgwick 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 116 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 6.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 448 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2026, with 11 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 38 days since 2022.
20 of the 116 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-09-03. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 42 of the 116 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 Sedgwick County
Reports cluster nearest Downtown Wichita -- 22 of the county's 116 hail days -- then Mount Hope (20), West Wichita (17), Clearwater (17) and Maize (17). Beyond those, NOAA names East Wichita, Haysville, Goddard, Derby, Colwich, Park City, Garden Plain, Andover and Bel Aire on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Hope | 16 | 4.25″ |
| West Wichita | 14 | 4.25″ |
| East Wichita | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Derby | 8 | 2.50″ |
| Cheney | 7 | 3.00″ |
When it hails in Sedgwick County
The season runs April through August: 93 of the 116 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 32 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 22 |
| May | 32 |
| June | 25 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 7 |
| October | 7 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Sedgwick County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Haysville. 11 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2026-06-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.75″ | 11 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.75″ | 8 |
How to read the Sedgwick 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 4.25 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: Harvey County (49 hail days), Butler County (92) and Sumner County (57). Sedgwick County takes more hail than any of them.
Harvey County · Butler County · Sumner County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sedgwick County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.