The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Lake County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-08-08 near Two Harbors.
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 Castle Danger. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lake 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2018-08-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Two Harbors -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Silver Bay (5), Castle Danger (4) and Finland (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Bay | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 6 Wnw Castle Danger | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 6 Nw Castle Danger | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 N Two Harbors | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 2 Ne Two Harbors | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). July is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). 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, 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 | 2 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Castle Danger. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-12 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2018-08-08 | 2.50″ | 7 |
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 2.5 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: St. Louis County (59 hail days), Carlton County (23), Itasca County (34), Douglas County, Wisconsin (26) and Bayfield County, Wisconsin (26). Every one of them takes more hail than Lake County.
St. Louis County · Carlton County · Itasca County · Douglas County, Wisconsin · Bayfield County, Wisconsin
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lake County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.