Valley County was hit as recently as 2026-06-29, 32 days ago. Valley County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2010-06-04 near North Loup.
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 2026-06-29, around Scotia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Valley 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 45 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 105 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 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 12 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 45 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2023-03-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. 15 of the 45 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 Ord -- 19 of the county's 45 hail days -- then Arcadia (19), Elyria (14), North Loup (10) and Fort Hartsuff State (3). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Fort Hartsuff Sta on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ord | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Arcadia | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 W Arcadia | 4 | 1.75″ |
| North Loup | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 3 W Ord | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through September: 38 of the 45 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Scotia. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-19 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-05-14 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2023-09-22 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.50″ | 3 |
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: Garfield County (34 hail days), Greeley County (28) and Sherman County (47). Valley County sits in between.
Garfield County · Greeley County · Sherman County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Valley County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.