The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-28, 368 days ago. Boyd County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-06-13 near Butte.
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 2025-07-28, around Naper. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Boyd 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 43 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 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 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 24 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2017-06-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not August. 9 of the 24 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 Naper -- 7 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Spencer (7), Lynch (6), Butte (5) and Bristow (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Gross on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 SW Lynch | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Butte | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Naper | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lynch | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Sse Butte | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). August is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (29%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Naper. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-28 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-08-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-28 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-08-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-09-30 | 1.75″ | 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 2 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: Holt County (78 hail days), Rock County (41), Knox County (50), Charles Mix County, South Dakota (48) and Gregory County, South Dakota (36). Every one of them takes more hail than Boyd County.
Holt County · Rock County · Knox County · Charles Mix County, South Dakota · Gregory County, South Dakota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Boyd County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.