Garden County was hit as recently as 2026-07-28, 3 days ago. Garden 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 2023-06-27 near Lisco.
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 2026-07-28, around Lisco. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Garden 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 62 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 125 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 2018, with 8 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 9 days since 2022, against 4.4 a year before that.
8 of the 62 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2023-07-16. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 22 of the 62 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 Oshkosh -- 37 of the county's 62 hail days -- then Lewellen (25), Lisco (14), Crescent Lake Nwr (4) and Lakeside (2). That one town is named on 60% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Crescent Lake Nw on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Ne Oshkosh | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Oshkosh | 6 | 3.00″ |
| Lewellen | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Nne Lisco | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Lisco | 2 | 3.25″ |
The season runs May through August: 59 of the 62 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (95%). June is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, 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 | 1 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 18 |
| July | 16 |
| August | 12 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Lisco. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-07 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-08 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-16 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-27 | 4.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-23 | 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, over the state line included: Deuel County (43 hail days), Arthur County (31), Keith County (84) and Sedgwick County, Colorado (38). Garden County sits in between.
Deuel County · Arthur County · Keith County · Sedgwick County, Colorado
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Garden County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.