Sherman County was hit as recently as 2026-06-08, 53 days ago. Sherman County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-04-25 near Brewster.
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 2026-06-08, around Ruleton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sherman 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 99 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 5.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 294 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 2017, with 9 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 24 days since 2022.
19 of the 99 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 39 of the 99 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 Goodland -- 62 of the county's 99 hail days -- then Ruleton (29), Edson (21), Kanorado (19) and Caruso (9). That one town is named on 63% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Brewster and Wheeler on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Goodland | 23 | 2.75″ |
| Kanorado | 10 | 2.75″ |
| 4 N Goodland | 6 | 2.75″ |
| 1 NNE Goodland | 6 | 2.00″ |
| 13 N Edson | 5 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 85 of the 99 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 28 of them (28%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 8 |
| May | 28 |
| June | 26 |
| July | 15 |
| August | 16 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Ruleton. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2026-05-16 | 2.75″ | 27 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-03 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 3 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: Cheyenne County (73 hail days), Wallace County (55) and Thomas County (76). Sherman County takes more hail than any of them.
Cheyenne County · Wallace County · Thomas County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sherman County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.