Loup County was hit as recently as 2026-06-12, 49 days ago. Loup County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2022-05-29 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 2026-06-12, around Taylor. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Loup 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 63 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 2014, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 9 of the 32 days reached 2 inches or more, 28% of them, the last on 2026-06-12. They land in the same month as everything else, June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 16 of 32 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Taylor -- 25 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Burwell (9), Almeria (8) and Rose (3). That one town is named on 78% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 12 N Taylor | 2 | 4.00″ |
| 17 N Taylor | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 N Taylor | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 N Taylor | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs May through August: 28 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Taylor. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-22 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-07 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-29 | 4.25″ | 11 |
| 2021-08-28 | 1.25″ | 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: Garfield County (34 hail days), Valley County (45) and Blaine County (48). Every one of them takes more hail than Loup County.
Garfield County · Valley County · Blaine County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Loup County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.