Wichita County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Wichita County was hit as recently as 2026-09-19, 41 days ago. Wichita County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-04-22 near Leoti.
Hail size, inches
- 0.25 in, pea
- 0.75 in, penny
- 1 in, quarter
- 1.25 in, half dollar
- 1.5 in, ping pong ball
- 1.75 in, golf ball
- 2 in, hen egg
- 2.5 in, tennis ball
- 3 in and up, teacup
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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See call-center options ->How often it hails in Wichita County
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 105 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 2016, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
10 of the 47 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-05-19. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 22 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.
Hardest-hit places in Wichita County
Reports cluster nearest Leoti -- 29 of the county's 47 hail days -- then Lydia (12), Marienthal (11) and Selkirk (10). That one town is named on 62% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Leoti | 9 | 2.50″ |
| Lydia | 8 | 1.75″ |
| 11 N Leoti | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 13 Nw Leoti | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 12 N Leoti | 3 | 2.00″ |
When it hails in Wichita County
The season runs May through August: 39 of the 47 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (30%). 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 | 3 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Wichita County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Selkirk. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-19 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-03 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-25 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2023-09-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Wichita 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. Deep violet is about an inch, the violet grows lighter as the hail grows, and pale lilac to near-white is 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 2.75 inches, which is the pale lilac band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Greeley County (34 hail days), Scott County (61) and Wallace County (56). Wichita County sits in between.
Greeley County · Scott County · Wallace County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wichita County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.