Lancaster County was hit as recently as 2026-07-03, 28 days ago. Lancaster County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-05-09 near Lincoln.
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 2026-07-03, around Roca. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lancaster 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 79 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 278 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 26 days since 2022.
16 of the 79 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 31 of the 79 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 Lincoln -- 46 of the county's 79 hail days -- then Malcolm (14), Waverly (13), Bennet (10) and Davey (8). That one town is named on 58% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Roca, Denton, Raymond, Firth, Garland, Pleasant Dale, Hickman, Hallam and Sprague on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 21 | 4.25″ |
| Waverly | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Bennet | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 E Lincoln | 5 | 1.50″ |
| 6 SE Malcolm | 5 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through July: 64 of the 79 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 17 |
| May | 20 |
| June | 16 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 9 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Roca. 7 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-10 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.75″ | 16 |
| 2026-04-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-14 | 1.00″ | 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 4.25 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: Seward County (44 hail days), Saunders County (48) and Saline County (40). Lancaster County takes more hail than any of them.
Seward County · Saunders County · Saline County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lancaster County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.