Hail Repair in Gardner, KS
Gardner logs fewer hail reports than most of the metro, yet golf ball hail keeps coming back. See the NOAA record and what paintless repair can fix.
Gardner sits at the southwest edge of the metro, and on paper its hail record looks quiet. The total is low. The big hail is not. Reports logged by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) put golf ball hail within 10 miles of Gardner in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. That is five of the six most recent years on file. The record stone, 2.85 inches, came down on May 18, 2017. If your car lives outside in Gardner, the recent run tells you more than the long average.
A low count with big stones
From 2010 to 2025, SPC logged 69 reports of hail at 1 inch or larger in Gardner's circle. They landed on 30 days. Gardner is not part of the 20 city metro record on this site, but it compares easily. Only Belton, Grandview and Raymore, among those 20, log fewer reports.
Each report is one sighting, tagged with the largest size seen. Someone has to be there to see it and send it in. That is worth remembering in a town ringed by more open land than the metro core.
Golf ball size, 1.75 inches and up, accounts for 14 reports on 10 days. That works out to fewer than two golf ball reports per golf ball day. No city in the 20 city record logs so few golf ball reports. Four of them, though, log fewer golf ball days than Gardner. Big hail here tends to show up a report or two at a time, not as a long list.
One report reached baseball size, which SPC starts at 2.75 inches. That was the 2.85 inch stone of May 18, 2017. Two reports came in near Gardner that day. Olathe's record matches it, the same size on the same date.
That leaves 55 reports in the range from 1 inch up to golf ball size.
Five of the last six years
The recent run starts on March 27, 2020, with a single golf ball report. On August 12, 2021, five reports came in, topping out at golf ball size.
The year 2022 brought none. Then September 23, 2023, brought five reports, peaking at 2 inches. On May 26, 2024, four more arrived, the largest at golf ball size.
May 19, 2025, closes the list with one golf ball report. It is also the latest 1 inch day on file for Gardner.
The busiest golf ball day sits further back. On April 13, 2018, eight reports came in near Gardner, peaking at 2 inches. May 6, 2012, brought seven, topping out at golf ball size. April 3, 2011, brought five, and March 6, 2017, brought two.
So golf ball hail has landed near Gardner in nine separate years since 2010. Most of them are recent.
Spring, then a late summer
May leads the calendar with 24 of the 69 reports, about 35 percent. April adds 16. Those two months hold 40 reports, close to three in five.
March adds 6 and June adds 5. July shows none at all. Then the count comes back, with 7 in August and 9 in September. October and December add one each. Nothing at all shows up in January, February or November.
That late summer bump is the part to remember. Two of the golf ball days fell in it, August 12, 2021, and September 23, 2023. A car that made it through May without a dent is not done for the year. The Kansas City hail season post lays out the wider metro pattern to set this beside.
Gardner on Interstate 35
Gardner sits in southwest Johnson County, Kansas. Interstate 35 passes the city on its way southwest, and US 56 runs through it. Olathe lies to the northeast. Edgerton sits just to the southwest.
Spring Hill, to the southeast, is about 6.5 miles from Gardner's center point. That puts it inside the same 10 mile circle. De Soto, up toward the Kansas River to the north, sits about 11 miles out, just past the edge.
The crew covers all of them, and the visit happens at the car. Your driveway in Gardner or a lot in Spring Hill works the same.
For the record next door, see Olathe. Its biggest stone fell on the same May day in 2017.
The dents to hear about first
A golf ball stone can hit hard enough to find the limits of paintless repair. It can crack the paint or stretch the metal. On a panel edge or over a brace, it can leave a dent that will not fully come out.
You should hear about those dents before any work starts, panel by panel. Everything else gets counted too, so you see the whole car at once. What PDR cannot fix lists every limit in plain words. Then call for a free assessment, and say where in Gardner the car is parked.
Hail within 10 miles of Gardner
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center hail reports, retrieved October 7, 2026. The 2025 file is SPC's file for the current year, and it can still be revised. A report is one observation, not one storm.
Hail Repair Questions in Gardner
Part of it may be people. A report exists only when somebody sees the hail and sends it in. More of the land around Gardner is farmland than around Olathe, so fewer people are there to report it. A lower count does not mean your car is safer. Golf ball days still turned up in five of the last six years on file.
Spring Hill, yes, in the sense that matters here. Its center point sits about 6.5 miles from Gardner's, inside the same 10 mile circle. De Soto sits about 11 miles away, just outside it. Hail still varies from one street to the next, so no circle is a promise about your block. Both towns are on the crew's route, and the assessment happens where your car is parked.
No, and the record shows why. SPC logged no July reports near Gardner, but August brings 7 and September brings 9. Two golf ball days landed in that stretch, on August 12, 2021, and September 23, 2023. So a car that got through spring clean can still take hail in late summer. Check the roof and hood after any storm, whatever the month on the calendar.
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