Woodson County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Woodson County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-05-06 near Yates Center.
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 2026-06-16, around Yates Center. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Woodson 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 31 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 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Woodson County: all 23 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Yates Center -- 14 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Toronto (6), Rose (2), Neosho Falls (2) and Humboldt (2). That one town is named on 61% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 6 NW Yates Center | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Yates Center | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 9 N Yates Center | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sw Yates Center | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (43%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, March and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Yates Center. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-29 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-06 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Allen County (28 hail days), Wilson County (29) and Greenwood County (44). Every one of them takes more hail than Woodson County.
Allen County · Wilson County · Greenwood County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Woodson County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.