Kandiyohi County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Kandiyohi 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 2022-05-09 near Willmar.
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 2026-06-23, around Willmar. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kandiyohi 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 53 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
7 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2022-05-11. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 13 of the 30 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 Kandiyohi -- 5 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Willmar (5), New London (4), Blomkest (4) and Prinsburg (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Sunburg, Spicer, Lake Lillian, Atwater and Pennock on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Willmar | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Lake Lillian | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 3 S Kandiyohi | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Atwater | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Pennock | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 28 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 9 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Willmar. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-03 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-07-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-06 | 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: Meeker County (26 hail days), Renville County (27) and Chippewa County (15). Kandiyohi County takes more hail than any of them.
Meeker County · Renville County · Chippewa County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.