Emmet County was hit as recently as 2026-05-15, 77 days ago. Emmet County is hit in most years. 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 2023-07-10 near Gruver.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Iowa. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-15, around Ringsted. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Emmet 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-07-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 6 of the 16 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Wallingford -- 6 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Estherville (6), Gruver (4) and Ringsted (4).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wallingford | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Ringsted | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Gruver | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 S Gruver | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 Ene Ringsted | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Ringsted. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-10 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2022-04-12 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2016-10-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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, over the state line included: Palo Alto County (25 hail days), Dickinson County (22), Kossuth County (32) and Martin County, Minnesota (21). Every one of them takes more hail than Emmet County.
Palo Alto County · Dickinson County · Kossuth County · Martin County, Minnesota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Emmet County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.