The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Dodge County is hit in most years. 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 2019-06-04 near Kasson.
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 2026-04-17, around Hayfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dodge 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 48 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 9 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 23 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2019-06-04. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hayfield -- 10 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Kasson (7), Claremont (4), West Concord (4) and Dodge Center (3). That one town is named on 43% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hayfield | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Kasson | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Dodge Center | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 1 S Kasson | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Hayfield | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Hayfield. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-28 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.00″ | 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: Olmsted County (27 hail days), Steele County (16) and Mower County (18). Dodge County sits in between.
Olmsted County · Steele County · Mower County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dodge County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.