Wabaunsee County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Wabaunsee County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-07-11 near Dover.
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 2026-05-18, around Volland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wabaunsee 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 47 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 88 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 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 16 days since 2022.
8 of the 47 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-04-17. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 15 of the 47 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 Eskridge -- 14 of the county's 47 hail days -- then Paxico (10), Alta Vista (8), Alma (7) and Dover (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Volland, Se Eskridge, Maple Hill, Saint George, Harveyville, Wamego and Keene on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Alta Vista | 6 | 2.00″ |
| 2 NW Dover | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Eskridge | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Se Eskridge | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 4 Ese Paxico | 4 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 38 of the 47 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March, September and October, outside that window. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Volland. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-17 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-13 | 4.00″ | 6 |
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 4.5 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: Shawnee County (63 hail days), Pottawatomie County (48) and Osage County (48). Every one of them takes more hail than Wabaunsee County.
Shawnee County · Pottawatomie County · Osage County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wabaunsee County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.