Otoe County was hit as recently as 2026-07-03, 28 days ago. Otoe County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-04-19 near Nebraska City.
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 Palmyra. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Otoe 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 65 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2015, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
5 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2024-05-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 13 of the 39 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 Syracuse -- 9 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Palmyra (8), Nebraska City (7), Bennet (4) and Douglas (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Julian, Dunbar, Otoe, Unadilla and Talmage on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Palmyra | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Syracuse | 5 | 1.25″ |
| 3 E Bennet | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Dunbar | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Unadilla | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through September: 34 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (87%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (21%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, October and November, outside that window. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 6 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Palmyra. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-10-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-21 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-07 | 2.00″ | 3 |
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 3 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: Johnson County (23 hail days), Cass County (50) and Nemaha County (33). Otoe County sits in between.
Johnson County · Cass County · Nemaha County
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Otoe County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.