Historical hail archive: January 2016–December 2025. NOAA radar estimates within 25 miles of each city centre. ZIP matches use the first three digits; this is not a property-level report or a live alert service. Coverage and source.
Douglas County · Nebraska · NOAA radar record 2016–2025
Hail damage in Omaha, NE
Radar has detected hail over Omaha on 295 separate days since 2016. On 112 of them the largest stone was estimated at golf-ball size or bigger. The biggest was 10.2 cm on April 18, 2025.
A very high value in this historical exposure model. This is not a national percentile or a diagnosis of your roof; the component values explain the result.
How we got to that number
| Component | Value | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency Hail days per year at 1.00 in (2.5 cm) or larger | 57 / 100 | × 0.35 | 20.1 |
| Severity Largest stone radar estimated in the whole window | 100 / 100 | × 0.30 | 30.0 |
| Recency How long since the last 2 in (5 cm) day | 94 / 100 | × 0.20 | 18.8 |
| Concentration Hail days per year reaching golf-ball size | 56 / 100 | × 0.15 | 8.4 |
| RoofTake Score | 77 | ||
The score describes an area, not a house. Two roofs on the same street of different ages face very different risk from the identical storm. The whole formula and its weights are on the methodology page, and you can recompute it yourself from our public data.
Eastern Nebraska sits under a reliable late-spring hail track.
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Data last refreshed: · source: NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory, dataset nx3hail
The ten biggest hail days in Omaha since 2016
| Date | Radar max size | Metric | Comparison | Signatures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2017 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 140 |
| July 2, 2019 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 75 |
| June 8, 2022 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 56 |
| June 13, 2024 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 64 |
| April 18, 2025 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 68 |
| June 11, 2022 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 36 |
| June 25, 2024 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 93 |
| June 11, 2018 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 211 |
| September 18, 2018 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 37 |
| May 21, 2024 | 3.50 in | 8.9 cm | Teacup | 331 |
"Signatures" is the number of separate radar volume scans that detected hail in a storm cell within 25 miles that day. More signatures means a longer-lived or larger storm, not necessarily bigger stones.
Hail days by year
Busiest year in the record: 2016 with 37 hail days.
Hail days by month
Peak month: June. Hail season in Nebraska is short and it is not distributed evenly — most of the annual risk arrives in a few weeks.
What to do with this if you own a roof in Omaha
- Find your dates. Look up your ZIP for the record nearest you, and note every day at 1.00 in or above since you bought the house.
- Work out whether your roof could have survived them. A twelve-year-old asphalt roof and a two-year-old one respond very differently to the same stone — the age calculator explains why.
- Look, before you file. Nine photographs, none of them requiring you to get on the roof.
- Check the arithmetic. If the actual cash value of the damage is under your deductible, filing pays nothing — work it out first.
- Then write. The letter generator puts the Omaha radar record and the NOAA citation into your notice of claim.
Every hail day radar recorded near Omaha
295 days, most recent first. Sizes are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in the cell, not measurements at any address.
- November 18, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- October 17, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- October 6, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- September 23, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- September 17, 20252.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- September 16, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- August 22, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- August 10, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- August 9, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- August 6, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 30, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 24, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 20, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 11, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 10, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 8, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- July 5, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 23, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 20, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- June 3, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- May 20, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- May 2, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- April 24, 20253.00 in (7.6 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- April 22, 20252.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- April 18, 20254.00 in (10.2 cm) — Grapefruit size, radar-estimated
- April 17, 20253.50 in (8.9 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- March 19, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- March 14, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- March 4, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- October 30, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- September 21, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- September 19, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- August 29, 20242.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- August 15, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- August 14, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 31, 20242.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 7, 20243.50 in (8.9 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- July 6, 20242.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 2, 20241.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- June 26, 20243.00 in (7.6 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- June 25, 20243.75 in (9.5 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- June 19, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 18, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- June 16, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 15, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 13, 20244.00 in (10.2 cm) — Grapefruit size, radar-estimated
- June 2, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- May 30, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- May 26, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- May 24, 20240.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- May 21, 20243.50 in (8.9 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- May 19, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- May 15, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- May 7, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- April 30, 20243.25 in (8.3 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- April 27, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- April 26, 20242.75 in (7.0 cm) — Baseball size, radar-estimated
- April 16, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- October 1, 20230.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- September 20, 20231.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
Showing the 60 most recent of 295. The full record is in the JSON we publish: omaha-ne.json.
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Hail in Omaha, NE: common questions
How often does Omaha get damaging hail?
Radar recorded 295 hail days within 25 miles of the city centre between 2016 and 2025 — an average of 29.5 a year, of which 11.2 a year were at golf-ball size or larger. Not every one of those damages roofs.
When is hail season in Omaha?
The busiest month in this record is June, and 2016 was the busiest single year with 37 hail days.
Does this mean my roof is damaged?
No. These are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in a storm cell somewhere within 25 miles of the city centre. Whether anything landed on your street, and whether it damaged your particular roof, needs somebody to look.
How do I use this for an insurance claim?
A specific date with a public, citable source is what turns 'sometime last year' into a date of loss. Use the claim letter generator, which pulls the date and the NOAA citation in for you.
Why 25 miles?
It is wide enough to catch storms that clipped the metro and narrow enough that the number still means something for a house inside it. The same radius is used for every metro so the pages are comparable.
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