The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-22, 312 days ago. Wright County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2017-05-15 near Goldfield.
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 2025-09-22, around Clarion. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wright 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 25 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 3 of the 14 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2017-05-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Eagle Grove -- 4 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Belmond (4), Clarion (3), Goldfield (2) and Lake Cornelia (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Woolstock on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Eagle Grove | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Belmond | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Goldfield | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Clarion | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Ese Belmond | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through September: 13 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (93%). April is the single busiest month, with 3 of them (21%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Clarion. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-15 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2017-03-23 | 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: Hancock County (29 hail days), Humboldt County (22) and Hamilton County (13). Wright County sits in between.
Hancock County · Humboldt County · Hamilton County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wright County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.