Gage County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Gage County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-06-11 near Beatrice.
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 2026-05-18, around Pickrell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gage 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 46 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 77 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 16 days since 2022.
10 of the 46 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 19 of the 46 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 Beatrice -- 13 of the county's 46 hail days -- then Odell (8), Pickrell (7), Adams (6) and Cortland (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Clatonia, Wymore, De Witt, Barneston, Liberty, Blue Springs and Filley on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Beatrice | 6 | 5.00″ |
| Odell | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Cortland | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Pickrell | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nne Beatrice | 2 | 3.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 40 of the 46 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (30%). 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 | 10 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Pickrell. 6 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-16 | 2.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-25 | 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 5 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: Jefferson County (47 hail days), Saline County (40) and Johnson County (23). Gage County sits in between.
Jefferson County · Saline County · Johnson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gage County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.