The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Pottawatomie County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2015-05-08 near N Shawnee.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Oklahoma. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-28, around Dale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pottawatomie 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 49 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 86 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
10 of the 49 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-05-17. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 16 of the 49 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Oklahoma, see the Oklahoma hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Shawnee -- 15 of the county's 49 hail days -- then Tecumseh (9), Dale (6), Bethel Acres (6) and Brooksville (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Maud, Earlsboro, Pink, Macomb, Wanette, Centerview, Aydelotte, Etowah and McLoud on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shawnee | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Maud | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Tecumseh | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Bethel Acres | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 3 Ese Dale | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 40 of the 49 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September, October and November, outside that window. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Dale. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-11-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-10-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-17 | 2.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Seminole County (31 hail days), Cleveland County (81) and Lincoln County (56). Pottawatomie County sits in between.
Seminole County · Cleveland County · Lincoln County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.