The most recent reported hail day was 2023-07-09 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Clearwater County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-07-21 near Bagley.
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 2023-07-09, around Shevlin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Clearwater 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. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2018 alone produced 5 of the 22 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 22 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2017-07-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Bagley -- 7 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Lake Itasca (3), Ebro (3), Leonard (3) and Shevlin (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Zerkel, Alida and Gonvick on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shevlin | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 4 Sse Bagley | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 S Lake Itasca | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 7 W Bagley | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 17 Wsw Lake Itasca | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs May through August: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 3 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Shevlin. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-30 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-07 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2019-06-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-13 | 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 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), Beltrami County (56) and Hubbard County (36). Clearwater County sits in between.
Mahnomen County · Beltrami County · Hubbard County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Clearwater County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.