Anoka County was hit as recently as 2026-06-19, 42 days ago. Anoka County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-08-05 near Ramsey.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Minnesota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-19, around Columbia Heights. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Anoka 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 79 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
4 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-08-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not May. 7 of the 22 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Blaine -- 7 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Anoka (6), Ramsey (4), St. Francis (4) and Circle Pines (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Ham Lake, Andover, Lino Lakes, Fridley, Forest Lake, East Bethel, St Francis, Oak Grove and Columbia Heights on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Andover | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Lino Lakes | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Blaine | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Fridley | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Circle Pines | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 22 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (100%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (45%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 10 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 5 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Columbia Heights. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-19 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-11 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-09 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2020-08-14 | 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 3 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: Ramsey County (27 hail days), Hennepin County (44) and Washington County (29). Every one of them takes more hail than Anoka County.
Ramsey County · Hennepin County · Washington County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Anoka County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.