The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Goodhue County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.3 inches and 3.3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-13 near Dennison.
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 Red Wing. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Goodhue 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 68 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 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 11 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
4 of the 23 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-13. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 7 of the 23 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 Red Wing -- 10 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Dennison (4), Cannon Falls (4), Pine Island (3) and Wanamingo (3). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Goodhue, Kenyon, Zumbrota, Frontenac Station and Vasa on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 S Cannon Falls | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Pine Island | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Dennison | 2 | 3.30″ |
| 3 Se Red Wing | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 SE Red Wing | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 20 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March 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 | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 9 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Red Wing. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.50″ | 9 |
| 2026-04-13 | 3.30″ | 8 |
| 2025-03-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.75″ | 3 |
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 3.3 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: Wabasha County (17 hail days), Rice County (27), Dakota County (47) and Pierce County, Wisconsin (19). Goodhue County sits in between.
Wabasha County · Rice County · Dakota County · Pierce County, Wisconsin
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Goodhue County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.