The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Shawnee County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-21 near Topeka.
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 2026-04-26, around Topeka. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shawnee 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 63 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 200 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 2016, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
7 of the 63 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2020-07-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 20 of the 63 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 Topeka -- 32 of the county's 63 hail days -- then Silver Lake (13), Berryton (9), Rossville (9) and Dover (8). That one town is named on 51% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Pauline, Willard, Tecumseh, Auburn, Forbes Field, Richland, Billard Airport and Meriden on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 7 SSE Silver Lake | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Topeka | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 7 WSW Topeka | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Tecumseh | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Berryton | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 55 of the 63 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (25%). 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 | 5 |
| April | 15 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 16 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 10 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Topeka. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.75″ | 10 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-17 | 1.50″ | 7 |
| 2024-03-13 | 1.75″ | 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 5 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: Osage County (48 hail days), Jefferson County (35) and Wabaunsee County (47). Shawnee County takes more hail than any of them.
Osage County · Jefferson County · Wabaunsee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shawnee County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.