Cedar County was hit as recently as 2026-06-29, 32 days ago. Cedar County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-07-07 near Obert.
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 2026-06-29, around Fordyce. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cedar County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
Get free access Check an addressOur US-based call center calls the homeowners in this storm and books roof inspections straight onto your calendar. You work the storm; we fill the schedule. We dial -- you do not have to knock a single door.
See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 49 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
5 of the 32 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-03-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not May. 8 of the 32 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 Hartington -- 10 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Fordyce (7), Wynot (6), Laurel (4) and Crofton (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Coleridge, Randolph and Obert on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hartington | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Randolph | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Ene Fordyce | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Fordyce | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Wynot | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through August: 28 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (22%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March 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 | 5 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Fordyce. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-06 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-07 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-24 | 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 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, over the state line included: Dixon County (23 hail days), Wayne County (22), Pierce County (32), Yankton County, South Dakota (37) and Clay County, South Dakota (25). Cedar County sits in between.
Dixon County · Wayne County · Pierce County · Yankton County, South Dakota · Clay County, South Dakota
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cedar County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.