Dawson County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Dawson County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2024-06-28 near Cozad.
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 2026-07-02, around Willow Island. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dawson 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 75 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 199 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 2017, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 19 days since 2022.
11 of the 75 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2025-07-19. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not July. 29 of the 75 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 Gothenburg -- 24 of the county's 75 hail days -- then Lexington (23), Cozad (21), Overton (11) and Eddyville (8). Beyond those, NOAA names Willow Island, Sumner, Johnson Lake, Farnam, Miller and Eustis on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gothenburg | 17 | 2.50″ |
| Cozad | 8 | 4.00″ |
| Lexington | 6 | 2.75″ |
| 6 ESE Cozad | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Overton | 4 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 65 of the 75 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). July is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 7 |
| May | 19 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 20 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 7 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Willow Island. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-19 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
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: Gosper County (27 hail days), Frontier County (61) and Phelps County (37). Dawson County takes more hail than any of them.
Gosper County · Frontier County · Phelps County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dawson County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.