Crow Wing County was hit as recently as 2026-07-04, 27 days ago. Crow Wing County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-06-19 near Nisswa.
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 2026-07-04, around Pine Knoll. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Crow Wing 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 112 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 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
7 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-06-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 12 of the 39 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 Brainerd -- 7 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Ironton (6), Fort Ripley (5), Crosby (5) and Crosslake (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Breezy Point, Pine Center, Emily, East Gull Lake, Pequot Lakes, Deerwood, Barrows, Baxter and Cuyuna Country St on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 N Fort Ripley | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Ironton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Crosby | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Pequot Lakes | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Crosby | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs June through September: 32 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). July is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and May, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 10 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 6 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pine Knoll. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-12 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-17 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-08-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2023-09-05 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-19 | 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 4 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: Cass County (45 hail days), Morrison County (28) and Aitkin County (34). Crow Wing County sits in between.
Cass County · Morrison County · Aitkin County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Crow Wing County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.