The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Cass County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-17 near Garden City.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Missouri. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-26, around Garden City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cass 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 41 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 131 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
10 of the 41 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-04-26. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 18 of the 41 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Harrisonville -- 15 of the county's 41 hail days -- then Garden City (8), Archie (8), Pleasant Hill (8) and Peculiar (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Raymore, Drexel, Belton, East Lynne, Strasburg, Creighton, Freeman, Lake Winnebago and Cleveland on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Harrisonville | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Raymore | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Peculiar | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Belton | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Drexel | 4 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 35 of the 41 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August, 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 | 2 |
| March | 10 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Garden City. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 2.50″ | 6 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-29 | 1.25″ | 7 |
| 2025-03-22 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-07 | 2.00″ | 3 |
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 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, over the state line included: Jackson County (52 hail days), Bates County (38), Johnson County (38), Miami County, Kansas (24) and Johnson County, Kansas (61). Cass County sits in between.
Jackson County · Bates County · Johnson County · Miami County, Kansas · Johnson County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cass County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.