Seward County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Seward County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2014-07-26 near Staplehurst.
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 2026-06-10, around Utica. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Seward 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 44 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 85 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 2026, with 8 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 18 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
7 of the 44 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-04-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 16 of the 44 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 Seward -- 14 of the county's 44 hail days -- then Utica (10), Milford (8), Garland (7) and Pleasant Dale (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Tamora, Staplehurst, Beaver Crossing, Bee, Cordova and Goehner on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Utica | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Seward | 6 | 2.25″ |
| Pleasant Dale | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 3 NNE Seward | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 5 W Milford | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through July: 37 of the 44 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, 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 | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Utica. 8 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 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 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: York County (45 hail days), Lancaster County (79) and Butler County (34). Seward County sits in between.
York County · Lancaster County · Butler County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Seward County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.