Washington County was hit as recently as 2026-05-15, 77 days ago. Washington County is hit in most years. 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 Kennard.
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 2026-05-15, around Herman. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Washington 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 66 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
4 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-04-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not April. 14 of the 30 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 Fort Calhoun -- 13 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Blair (11), Herman (8), Kennard (5) and Arlington (4). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Washington on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Blair | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Herman | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Fort Calhoun | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Arlington | 2 | 4.00″ |
| 2 W Fort Calhoun | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 25 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in 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 | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Herman. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-17 | 4.00″ | 12 |
| 2025-03-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 3.00″ | 9 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-28 | 1.00″ | 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 4.25 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: Douglas County (65 hail days), Dodge County (46), Burt County (22) and Harrison County, Iowa (35). Washington County sits in between.
Douglas County · Dodge County · Burt County · Harrison County, Iowa
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Washington County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.