Dawes County was hit as recently as 2026-07-09, 22 days ago. Dawes County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2020-06-25 near Crawford.
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 2026-07-09, around Box Butte Dam. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dawes 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 61 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 107 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2023, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
7 of the 61 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2021-07-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 21 of the 61 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 Chadron -- 28 of the county's 61 hail days -- then Crawford (24), Whitney (5), Hemingford (5) and Marsland (4). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Box Butte Dam, Chadron State Park and Chadron St Park on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chadron | 10 | 1.75″ |
| Crawford | 9 | 3.00″ |
| 11 N Crawford | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 12 S Chadron | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 7 W Chadron | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 58 of the 61 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (95%). June is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 19 |
| July | 19 |
| August | 10 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Box Butte Dam. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-29 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-22 | 1.50″ | 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: Box Butte County (64 hail days), Sioux County (56) and Sheridan County (110). Dawes County sits in between.
Box Butte County · Sioux County · Sheridan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dawes County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.