Dawes County, Nebraska Hail Map & History
Dawes County was hit as recently as 2026-08-27, 18 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 2026-08-27, around Chadron. 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 64 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 118 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 2023, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 18 days since 2022.
8 of the 64 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-08-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 24 of the 64 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Dawes County
Reports cluster nearest Chadron -- 31 of the county's 64 hail days -- then Crawford (24), Whitney (5), Hemingford (5) and Chadron State Park (5). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Marsland, Box Butte Dam, Chadron State Par 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″ |
When it hails in Dawes County
The season runs May through August: 61 of the 64 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (95%). June is the single busiest month, with 20 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 | 20 |
| July | 19 |
| August | 12 |
| September | 2 |
Recent Dawes County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Chadron. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-08-21 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-07-09 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-28 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-29 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Dawes County map
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.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Box Butte County (65 hail days), Sheridan County (113) and Sioux County (57). Dawes County sits in between.
Box Butte County · Sheridan County · Sioux 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.