Buffalo County was hit as recently as 2026-06-20, 41 days ago. Buffalo County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2022-06-07 near Ravenna.
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 2026-06-20, around Riverdale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Buffalo 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 83 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 226 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2022, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 30 days since 2022.
12 of the 83 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-05-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 36 of the 83 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 Kearney -- 30 of the county's 83 hail days -- then Elm Creek (17), Ravenna (15), Gibbon (14) and Miller (13). Beyond those, NOAA names Pleasanton, Riverdale, Shelton, Amherst, Odessa, Poole and Boelus on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elm Creek | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Kearney | 10 | 1.75″ |
| Ravenna | 7 | 4.00″ |
| Miller | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NNE Kearney | 4 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 75 of the 83 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 19 |
| July | 16 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Riverdale. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-16 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-08 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-15 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Kearney County (34 hail days), Phelps County (37) and Sherman County (47). Buffalo County takes more hail than any of them.
Kearney County · Phelps County · Sherman County
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Buffalo County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.