The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-23, 99 days ago. Freeborn County is hit in most years. 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 2022-05-19 near Twin Lakes.
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 2026-04-23, around Albert Lea. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Freeborn 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 41 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2018, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2022-05-19. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 7 of the 21 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 Albert Lea -- 7 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Clarks Grove (6), Alden (4), Manchester (4) and Glenville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Conger and Myrtle on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clarks Grove | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Manchester | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Glenville | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Albert Lea | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 4 Nnw Clarks Grove | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through July: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Albert Lea. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 3.00″ | 7 |
| 2019-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-31 | 1.25″ | 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 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, over the state line included: Waseca County (15 hail days), Steele County (16), Mower County (18), Worth County, Iowa (13) and Winnebago County, Iowa (18). Freeborn County takes more hail than any of them.
Waseca County · Steele County · Mower County · Worth County, Iowa · Winnebago County, Iowa
Back to the Minnesota hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Freeborn County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.