Scotts Bluff County was hit as recently as 2026-06-22, 39 days ago. Scotts Bluff County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2014-06-03 near Minatare.
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 2026-06-22, around Gering. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Scotts Bluff 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 74 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 237 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2023, with 9 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 23 days since 2022.
14 of the 74 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-22. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 31 of the 74 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 Scottsbluff -- 34 of the county's 74 hail days -- then Minatare (18), Gering (17), Mitchell (17) and Morrill (16). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Melbeta, Lyman, Mcgrew and Stegall on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Scottsbluff | 14 | 3.00″ |
| Gering | 12 | 2.00″ |
| Morrill | 10 | 2.75″ |
| 1 NE Scottsbluff | 7 | 3.25″ |
| Minatare | 5 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 63 of the 74 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 31 of them (42%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 31 |
| July | 22 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 8 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Gering. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-22 | 2.75″ | 8 |
| 2025-07-18 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-29 | 2.30″ | 11 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-23 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-22 | 1.20″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-14 | 1.75″ | 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 4.25 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, over the state line included: Banner County (29 hail days), Morrill County (59), Sioux County (56) and Goshen County, Wyoming (100). Scotts Bluff County sits in between.
Banner County · Morrill County · Sioux County · Goshen County, Wyoming
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.