The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-28, 368 days ago. Keya Paha County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-18 near Mills.
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 2025-07-28, around Burton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Keya Paha County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
Get free access Check an addressOur US-based call center calls the homeowners in this storm and books roof inspections straight onto your calendar. You work the storm; we fill the schedule. We dial -- you do not have to knock a single door.
See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 35 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 59 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 7 of the 35 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.4 a year before that.
4 of the 35 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2025-07-28. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 14 of the 35 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 Springview -- 22 of the county's 35 hail days -- then Burton (10), Mills (6) and Sparks (3). That one town is named on 63% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 8 W Springview | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Springview | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 N Springview | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 13 Nw Springview | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 NW Springview | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 30 of the 35 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). July is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (37%). 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 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 13 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Burton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-28 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-15 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-07-30 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-29 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-23 | 2.75″ | 4 |
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 2.75 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: Brown County (48 hail days), Rock County (41), Boyd County (24), Tripp County, South Dakota (47) and Gregory County, South Dakota (36). Keya Paha County sits in between.
Brown County · Rock County · Boyd County · Tripp County, South Dakota · Gregory County, South Dakota
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Keya Paha County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.