Lincoln County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Lincoln 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 2015-06-21 near Sutherland.
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 2026-07-02, around North Platte. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lincoln 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 141 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 8.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 443 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2013, with 15 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 36 days since 2022.
31 of the 141 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-24. They land in the same month as everything else, June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 71 of 141 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest North Platte -- 68 of the county's 141 hail days -- then Hershey (28), Sutherland (26), Maxwell (22) and Brady (22). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Wellfleet, Wallace, Dickens, Stapleton, Arnold, Maywood, Gandy, Paxton and S North Platte on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| North Platte | 19 | 2.75″ |
| Hershey | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Sutherland | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Brady | 7 | 1.75″ |
| 6 S North Platte | 6 | 2.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 128 of the 141 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). June is the single busiest month, with 38 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April, 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 | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 34 |
| June | 38 |
| July | 33 |
| August | 23 |
| September | 6 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near North Platte. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-24 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-30 | 3.50″ | 13 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-08-29 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-19 | 4.00″ | 9 |
| 2025-07-15 | 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 4.25 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: Logan County (43 hail days), McPherson County (43) and Hayes County (52). Lincoln County takes more hail than any of them.
Logan County · McPherson County · Hayes County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lincoln County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.