Saline County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Saline County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-10-03 near Wilber.
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 Friend. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Saline 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 78 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
6 of the 40 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 13 of the 40 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 Wilber -- 13 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Dorchester (10), Friend (8), Western (7) and Crete (7). Beyond those, NOAA names De Witt and Tobias on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wilber | 9 | 2.50″ |
| De Witt | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Crete | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Dorchester | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Friend | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 35 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 4 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Friend. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-16 | 2.50″ | 6 |
| 2026-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-07 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-12 | 2.50″ | 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 2.75 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: Seward County (44 hail days), Jefferson County (47) and Gage County (46). Every one of them takes more hail than Saline County.
Seward County · Jefferson County · Gage County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Saline County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.