Hennepin County was hit as recently as 2026-06-19, 42 days ago. Hennepin County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2023-08-11 near Minneapolis.
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 2026-06-19, around Brooklyn Center. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hennepin 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 44 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 202 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2020, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 11 of the 44 days reached 2 inches or more, 25% of them, the last on 2025-09-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not July. 15 of the 44 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 Minneapolis -- 11 of the county's 44 hail days -- then Bloomington (9), Richfield (9), Eden Prairie (6) and Golden Valley (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Maple Grove, Edina, Plymouth, Robbinsdale, Brooklyn Park, Corcoran, Maple Plain, Minnetonka and Crystal on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Richfield | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Eden Prairie | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Golden Valley | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Edina | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Plymouth | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 37 of the 44 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). July is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 7 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Brooklyn Center. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-19 | 1.25″ | 7 |
| 2025-09-21 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2025-08-15 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-27 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-13 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-10-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 3.00″ | 26 |
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: Ramsey County (27 hail days), Carver County (20) and Anoka County (22). Hennepin County takes more hail than any of them.
Ramsey County · Carver County · Anoka County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hennepin County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.