Richardson County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Richardson County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-05-12 near Humboldt.
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 2026-05-18, around Humboldt. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Richardson 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 31 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 43 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 31 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2023-05-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 31 days.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Humboldt -- 11 of the county's 31 hail days -- then Falls City (11), Dawson (6), Verdon (3) and Stella (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Shubert on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Falls City | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Humboldt | 6 | 1.50″ |
| 3 W Humboldt | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Stella | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 N Humboldt | 1 | 4.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 26 of the 31 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Humboldt. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-12 | 4.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-07 | 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 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, over the state line included: Nemaha County (33 hail days), Pawnee County (23), Johnson County (23), Brown County, Kansas (25) and Nemaha County, Kansas (35). Richardson County sits in between.
Nemaha County · Pawnee County · Johnson County · Brown County, Kansas · Nemaha County, Kansas
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Richardson County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.