The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-23, 99 days ago. Burt County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-06-01 near Craig.
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 2026-04-23, around Craig. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Burt 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 33 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 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2019-09-24. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 6 of the 22 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 Craig -- 9 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Tekamah (6), Oakland (4), Herman (3) and Lyons (3). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Decatur on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Craig | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Tekamah | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Oakland | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 N Herman | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Lyons | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through July: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Craig. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-14 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-02 | 1.00″ | 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 2.75 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: Washington County (30 hail days), Cuming County (23), Dodge County (46) and Monona County, Iowa (26). Every one of them takes more hail than Burt County.
Washington County · Cuming County · Dodge County · Monona County, Iowa
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Burt County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.