Garfield County, Nebraska Hail Map & History
Garfield County was hit as recently as 2026-08-19, 26 days ago. Garfield County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-06-19 near Burwell.
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 2026-08-19, around Burwell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Garfield 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 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 82 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2014, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
7 of the 36 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-08-17. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 12 of the 36 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 Garfield County
Reports cluster nearest Burwell -- 31 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Ericson (8). That one town is named on 86% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Burwell | 11 | 2.00″ |
| 7 W Ericson | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 13 N Burwell | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 7 ENE Burwell | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 10 Ne Burwell | 2 | 2.00″ |
When it hails in Garfield County
The season runs May through August: 31 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
Recent Garfield County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Burwell. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-17 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-19 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-14 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-06-07 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-10 | 2.00″ | 6 |
How to read the Garfield 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 2.5 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: Loup County (32 hail days), Valley County (46) and Wheeler County (26). Garfield County sits in between.
Loup County · Valley County · Wheeler County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Garfield County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.