Platte County was hit as recently as 2026-05-17, 75 days ago. Platte County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2025-05-19 near Columbus.
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 2026-05-17, around Creston. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Platte 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 50 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 112 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 2023, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 19 days since 2022.
9 of the 50 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 22 of the 50 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 Humphrey -- 13 of the county's 50 hail days -- then Columbus (12), Monroe (9), Platte Center (9) and Creston (7). Beyond those, NOAA names Lindsay, Tarnov, Duncan, Saint Edward, Leigh, Genoa and St. Edward on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Humphrey | 9 | 2.50″ |
| Columbus | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Monroe | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Platte Center | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Duncan | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 41 of the 50 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September, October and December, outside that window. January, February and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Creston. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-16 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-10 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-19 | 3.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.75″ | 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 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: Colfax County (25 hail days), Nance County (21) and Polk County (28). Platte County takes more hail than any of them.
Colfax County · Nance County · Polk 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, Platte County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.