Wilson County was hit as recently as 2026-07-10, 21 days ago. Wilson County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-07-11 near Thayer.
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 2026-07-10, around Fredonia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wilson 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 49 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 29 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2025-07-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not April. 9 of the 29 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 Fredonia -- 9 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Altoona (7), Neodesha (6), New Albany (6) and Buffalo (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Buxton and Benedict on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Neodesha | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W New Albany | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Altoona | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Buffalo | 2 | 2.25″ |
| 1 W Buffalo | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 25 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, 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 | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Fredonia. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-12 | 2.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.00″ | 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 4 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: Neosho County (27 hail days), Woodson County (23) and Montgomery County (52). Wilson County sits in between.
Neosho County · Woodson County · Montgomery County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wilson County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.