The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-19 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Chippewa County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2022-05-09 near Montevideo.
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 2025-06-19, around Pennock. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chippewa 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 31 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 6 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more, 40% of them, the last on 2024-07-31. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. 7 of the 15 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 Montevideo -- 8 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Clara City (4), Milan (4) and Watson (3). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Montevideo | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Milan | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 3 Nw Watson | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Ne Clara City | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 N Clara City | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pennock. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-09 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2019-06-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-09 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2017-07-04 | 1.50″ | 2 |
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: Swift County (13 hail days), Yellow Medicine County (15) and Lac qui Parle County (19). Chippewa County sits in between.
Swift County · Yellow Medicine County · Lac qui Parle County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chippewa County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.