Webster County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Webster County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-06-30 near Fort Dodge.
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 2026-07-02, around Gowrie. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Webster 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 72 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2018 alone produced 8 of the 38 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 2.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 38 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2018-06-13. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 10 of the 38 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 Fort Dodge -- 16 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Badger (6), Duncombe (5), Gowrie (4) and Lehigh (3). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Stratford, Clare and Callender on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Dodge | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Gowrie | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 3 Sw Badger | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 5 Nnw Fort Dodge | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 1 WNW Fort Dodge | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 34 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Gowrie. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-11 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2020-06-04 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-09-14 | 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 2.5 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: Humboldt County (22 hail days), Hamilton County (13) and Calhoun County (26). Webster County takes more hail than any of them.
Humboldt County · Hamilton County · Calhoun County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Webster County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.