Stanton County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Stanton County is hit in most years. 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 2015-09-22 near Stanton.
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 Clarkson. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Stanton 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 43 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 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
5 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2021-08-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 11 of 22 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Stanton -- 11 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Norfolk (7), Pilger (6), The Highway 15 and (2) and Clarkson (2). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Howells on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Stanton | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 4 ENE Norfolk | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 N Stanton | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 8 Se Stanton | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Pilger | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through September: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (36%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, April and May, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 6 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Clarkson. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-29 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-30 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2021-08-29 | 1.75″ | 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: Madison County (39 hail days), Wayne County (22) and Cuming County (23). Stanton County sits in between.
Madison County · Wayne County · Cuming County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Stanton County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.