Dundy County was hit as recently as 2026-07-09, 22 days ago. Dundy County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-05-27 near Benkelman.
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 Max. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dundy 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 59 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 112 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 2020, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 20 days since 2022.
12 of the 59 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-21. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 27 of the 59 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 Benkelman -- 23 of the county's 59 hail days -- then Max (17), Parks (17), Haigler (13) and Wauneta (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Imperial and Stratton Ne on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Benkelman | 11 | 4.25″ |
| Haigler | 7 | 1.75″ |
| 12 N Max | 3 | 3.20″ |
| 1 E Benkelman | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 2 W Parks | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 54 of the 59 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (34%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. 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 | 2 |
| May | 20 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 10 |
| August | 13 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Max. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-21 | 3.20″ | 4 |
| 2026-06-20 | 1.61″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-06 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-18 | 2.00″ | 7 |
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 4.25 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: Chase County (61 hail days), Hitchcock County (63), Hayes County (52), Cheyenne County, Kansas (73) and Rawlins County, Kansas (77). Dundy County sits in between.
Chase County · Hitchcock County · Hayes County · Cheyenne County, Kansas · Rawlins County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dundy County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.