Becker County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Becker County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2016-07-07 near Snellman.
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 2026-06-23, around Richwood. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Becker 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 55 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 121 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
12 of the 55 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2024-06-12. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 14 of the 55 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 Detroit Lakes -- 8 of the county's 55 hail days -- then Callaway (7), Lake Park (7), Rochert (6) and Audubon (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Richwood, White Earth, Cormorant, Frazee, Ponsford, Snellman, Ogema, Osage and Two Inlets on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| White Earth | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Rochert | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Frazee | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 7 E Detroit Lakes | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 NW Rochert | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs June through August: 46 of the 55 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). July is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in May and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 4 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 20 |
| August | 15 |
| September | 5 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Richwood. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-09 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-05-30 | 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: Mahnomen County (22 hail days), Otter Tail County (65) and Clay County (37). Becker County sits in between.
Mahnomen County · Otter Tail County · Clay County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Becker County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.