McLeod County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. McLeod County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2016-07-27 near Winsted.
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 Glencoe. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls McLeod 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 49 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-08-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not August. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 29 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hutchinson -- 14 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Glencoe (6), Winsted (4), Lester Prairie (4) and Silver Lake (4). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Stewart, Brownton and Biscay on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hutchinson | 6 | 1.25″ |
| Winsted | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Lester Prairie | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Glencoe | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Biscay | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 27 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (93%). August is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (24%). 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 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Glencoe. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-12 | 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: Sibley County (24 hail days), Meeker County (26) and Carver County (20). McLeod County takes more hail than any of them.
Sibley County · Meeker County · Carver County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, McLeod County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.