The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-15, 107 days ago. Butler County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2018-05-01 near Octavia.
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 2026-04-15, around Dwight. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Butler 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 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 71 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 34 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
8 of the 34 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-04-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 17 of 34 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest David City -- 11 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Bellwood (8), Rising City (6), Dwight (5) and Garrison (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Surprise, Ulysses, Columbus, Brainard, Octavia and Abie on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| David City | 9 | 2.75″ |
| Rising City | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Dwight | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Garrison | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Octavia | 2 | 4.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 28 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (35%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 7 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 4 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Dwight. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-17 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-25 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2022-06-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-07 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-04 | 2.00″ | 6 |
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: Polk County (28 hail days), Colfax County (25) and Seward County (44). Butler County sits in between.
Polk County · Colfax County · Seward County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Butler County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.