The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-09, 387 days ago. Marshall 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 2015-06-07 near Alvarado.
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 2025-07-09, around Viking. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marshall 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 41 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 77 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.9 a year before that.
6 of the 41 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-06-24. They land in the same month as everything else, June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 9 of the 41 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Holt -- 9 of the county's 41 hail days -- then Stephen (6), Alvarado (5), Gatzke (5) and Grygla (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Viking, Goodridge, Middle River, Florian, Warren, Argyle, Big Woods, Espelie and Newfolden on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Alvarado | 2 | 3.00″ |
| 2 Ne Alvarado | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Grygla | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Holt | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 5 N Viking | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs June through August: 34 of the 41 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (34%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, May and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Viking. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-24 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2022-06-24 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2022-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-12 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2021-07-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-18 | 1.75″ | 5 |
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: Pennington County (21 hail days), Red Lake County (16) and Polk County (59). Marshall County sits in between.
Pennington County · Red Lake County · Polk County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Marshall County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.