Hail Repair in Leavenworth, KS
Leavenworth logs few hail reports, but they run big and late in the year. Read what NOAA logged, month by month, and where paintless repair stops.
In Leavenworth, hail season does not close when spring does. Reports logged by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) put 9 reports of 1 inch hail or larger within 10 miles of town in October, from 2010 to 2025. May logged the same number. No city in our data logs more October reports. The latest 1 inch day on file came on October 18, 2025. If your car is parked outside in Leavenworth, the fall storms deserve the same attention as the spring ones.
Few reports, big stones
SPC's file holds 48 reports of hail at 1 inch or larger in Leavenworth's circle for 2010 to 2025. They came on 26 days. Leavenworth sits outside the 20 city metro record on this site. Next to it, though, the count is low. Among those 20 cities, only Belton logs fewer reports or fewer hail days.
Remember what a report is. It is one sighting, logged at the largest size seen, and somebody has to be there to send it in. A low count can mean fewer people watching as much as less hail.
The sizes tell the other half of the story. Golf ball hail, 1.75 inches and up, makes up 12 of the 48 reports, on 8 days. Three reports reached baseball size, which SPC starts at 2.75 inches. Only six of the 20 metro cities log more baseball reports.
Most of the count, 36 reports, sits below golf ball size.
One summer, three baseball reports
All three baseball reports landed in 2011. On June 19 of that year, four reports came in near Leavenworth, topping out at 3.0 inches. Two of the three baseball reports came that day.
The third came two months later. On August 19, 2011, a single report of 4.5 inches came in near Leavenworth. It is the only report of 1 inch or larger on file here for that day, and it is the city's record.
Among the 20 metro cities, only five log a bigger stone. All five come from one day, September 18, 2010, when a 5.5 inch stone was reported on the Missouri side of the metro. Leavenworth logged hail that day too, two reports at golf ball size.
A late year on the calendar
May and October share the lead, with 9 reports each. June adds 8, April 7 and March 5. August brings 4, and July and September 3 each. From November through February, the record is empty.
The October total leans on one day. On October 1, 2014, seven reports came in near Leavenworth, topping out at 2 inches. That is the busiest golf ball day here. The rest of October includes the latest 1 inch day on file, October 18, 2025.
Golf ball hail itself has gone quiet. The spring of 2017 holds the last two golf ball days on file. March 6 brought two reports, and May 18 brought four, each day topping out at golf ball size. No golf ball report has been logged within range since. Eight full years without one is a gap in the record, not a promise about next spring.
So the pattern is spread across the year. In 12 of the 20 metro cities, May stands alone on top. Here it shares the top spot with October. The hail season post lays out the metro pattern month by month.
Leavenworth on the Missouri River
Leavenworth is the county seat of Leavenworth County, Kansas, on the west bank of the Missouri River. Fort Leavenworth borders the city to the north. Kansas Highway 7 runs south through Lansing, and Kansas Highway 92 crosses the river into Platte County, Missouri.
Lansing sits about 5.7 miles south of Leavenworth's center point, inside the same 10 mile circle. Platte City, across the river in Missouri, sits about 9.4 miles out, just inside the edge. So the circle behind these numbers spans two states. Kansas Highway 7 carries on south toward Bonner Springs, which has its own page and a very different March.
The crew covers Leavenworth and Lansing at the car. Your driveway works, and so does a lot at work.
October still counts
A late storm can leave dents as deep as a spring one. Some of those dents come out fully with paintless repair. Some do not, such as a dent with cracked paint, stretched metal or a sharp crease.
You hear which of your dents fall into that second group before any work starts. What PDR cannot fix explains why each limit exists. When you want your own count, call for a free assessment and say where in Leavenworth the car sits.
Hail within 10 miles of Leavenworth
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 Leavenworth
Yes. SPC logged 9 October reports of 1 inch hail or larger near Leavenworth, the same as May. Seven of those came on one day, October 1, 2014. October 18, 2025, is the most recent 1 inch day on file. One busy day does not make a season on its own. Still, a storm in fall can dent a car here as easily as one in spring.
Reports need people watching. A report is logged only when a spotter or a member of the public sees hail and sends it in. Leavenworth's circle takes in river bottoms, fields and a stretch of Missouri across the water. Fewer eyes there may mean fewer reports. The size record suggests the hail is real enough. Three baseball size reports landed within a single summer.
Yes. Lansing's center point sits about 5.7 miles south of Leavenworth's, well inside the 10 mile circle used here. So the reports on this page include hail over Lansing. Hail can still land on one street and miss the next, so check your own car after a storm. The crew covers Lansing the same way it covers Leavenworth, with the visit at the car.
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