Sheridan County was hit as recently as 2026-07-07, 24 days ago. Sheridan County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2023-07-30 near Antioch.
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 2026-07-07, around Rushville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sheridan 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 110 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 6.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 259 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2019, with 12 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 31 days since 2022.
18 of the 110 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-07-01. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 46 of the 110 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 Hay Springs -- 43 of the county's 110 hail days -- then Gordon (37), Rushville (33), Ellsworth (26) and Lakeside (10). Beyond those, NOAA names Antioch, Clinton, Bingham and Merriman on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rushville | 7 | 2.00″ |
| 6 N Gordon | 7 | 1.25″ |
| Ellsworth | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 15 S Hay Springs | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 16 N Hay Springs | 4 | 1.25″ |
The season runs June through August: 91 of the 110 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). July is the single busiest month, with 37 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, May, 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 | 2 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 35 |
| July | 37 |
| August | 19 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Rushville. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-03 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2026-06-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-13 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-01 | 2.00″ | 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: Dawes County (61 hail days), Box Butte County (64), Grant County (32), Shannon County, South Dakota (30) and Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota (53). Sheridan County takes more hail than any of them.
Dawes County · Box Butte County · Grant County · Shannon County, South Dakota · Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sheridan County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.