Box Butte County was hit as recently as 2026-06-27, 34 days ago. Box Butte County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.3 inches and 4.3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-07-08 near Berea.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Nebraska. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-27, around Hemingford. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Box Butte 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 64 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 152 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 2013, with 8 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 12 days since 2022, against 4.3 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 16 of the 64 days reached 2 inches or more, 25% of them, the last on 2025-07-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. 29 of the 64 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Alliance -- 36 of the county's 64 hail days -- then Hemingford (33), Berea (8), Marsland (4) and Angora (2). That one town is named on 56% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Alliance | 16 | 3.00″ |
| Hemingford | 8 | 2.75″ |
| 17 Wnw Hemingford | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 5 W Alliance | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 6 NE Alliance | 3 | 4.25″ |
The season runs May through August: 60 of the 64 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (94%). June is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 | 1 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 23 |
| July | 14 |
| August | 11 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hemingford. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-06 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-08-07 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-20 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 4.3 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: Morrill County (59 hail days), Dawes County (61) and Sheridan County (110). Box Butte County sits in between.
Morrill County · Dawes County · Sheridan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Box Butte County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.