Cass County was hit as recently as 2026-06-19, 42 days ago. Cass County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2021-07-26 near Bena.
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 Motley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cass 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 45 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 101 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2022, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 17 days since 2022.
8 of the 45 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-08-03. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 19 of the 45 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 Lake Shore -- 8 of the county's 45 hail days -- then Backus (7), Motley (6), Bena (5) and Remer (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Hackensack, Pillager, Pine River, Leader, Walker, Poplar, Boy River, Brevik and Jenkins on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Backus | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 3 E Motley | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Backus | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nw Motley | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Backus | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through September: 40 of the 45 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (36%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in May, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 5 |
| June | 16 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 6 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Motley. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-03 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-06-12 | 2.50″ | 10 |
| 2024-05-17 | 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: Crow Wing County (39 hail days), Hubbard County (36) and Wadena County (31). Cass County takes more hail than any of them.
Crow Wing County · Hubbard County · Wadena County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cass County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.