Kearney County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Kearney 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 2022-04-29 near Axtell.
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 2026-06-10, around Axtell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kearney 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 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 68 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 34 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2024-06-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 13 of the 34 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 Axtell -- 12 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Minden (11), Heartwell (8), Wilcox (6) and Hildreth (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Kearney, Norman and Kenesaw on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Minden | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Wilcox | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Heartwell | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Axtell | 5 | 1.25″ |
| 2 S Axtell | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 28 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August 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 | 5 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Axtell. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-10 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2024-06-07 | 2.75″ | 9 |
| 2024-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-21 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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: Phelps County (37 hail days), Franklin County (43) and Buffalo County (83). Every one of them takes more hail than Kearney County.
Phelps County · Franklin County · Buffalo County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kearney County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.