Hail reports by county
Every county with a reported hail event in the record.
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| County | Reports | Largest | ≥ 2 in | ≥ 4 in | Most recent |
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Filter by state or name, or sort by the largest stone to find the severe-hail hotspots.
Reading this table
Reports is the number of logged hail events in the county between 2016 and 2025. It is a measure of activity as much as of weather: counties with more people, more roads and more trained spotters accumulate more reports from the same storms.
Largest is the biggest stone reported in the county, not a typical size. A single 4-inch report in a decade says large hail is possible there, not that it is common.
≥ 2 in and ≥ 4 in count reports at those thresholds. For comparing places, the ratio of these to total reports is more informative than the raw counts, because it is less sensitive to how densely the area is populated.
Where the severe hail actually is
Sorting by largest stone puts the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, western Kansas, Nebraska and eastern Colorado at the top: the classic hail alley. Sorting by share of severe reports rather than count sharpens that further, which is why Texas leads on share at 15.4%. Hail is not evenly distributed across a state, and in the plains it is not evenly distributed across a county either: a single supercell can track thirty miles and miss most of the county it is reported in.