The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-27 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Houston 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 2011-04-10 near Hokah.
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 2025-03-27, around Spring Grove. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Houston 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 31 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2013 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
3 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2012-09-04. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not July. 4 of the 15 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 Houston -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Hokah (3), Spring Grove (3), La Crescent (3) and Caledonia (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Brownsville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Spring Grove | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Hokah | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Houston | 2 | 1.75″ |
| La Crescent | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 E Hokah | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). July is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Spring Grove. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-27 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2018-06-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-29 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2014-07-07 | 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 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: Winona County (33 hail days), Fillmore County (25), Olmsted County (27), La Crosse County, Wisconsin (25) and Vernon County, Wisconsin (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Houston County.
Winona County · Fillmore County · Olmsted County · La Crosse County, Wisconsin · Vernon County, Wisconsin
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Houston County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.