Meeker County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Meeker County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-07-01 near Dassel.
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 Cosmos. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Meeker 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 51 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 2016, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 10 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
6 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-06-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not August. 9 of the 26 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 Dassel -- 7 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Litchfield (6), Cosmos (4), Grove City (4) and Cedar Mills (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Darwin, Eden Valley and Kingston on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 N Dassel | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Darwin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Litchfield | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Sw Dassel | 1 | 4.25″ |
| 6 S Dassel | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 22 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). August is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (31%). 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, April 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 | 7 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Cosmos. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-03 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-08-11 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-27 | 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 4.25 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: McLeod County (29 hail days), Kandiyohi County (30) and Wright County (39). Every one of them takes more hail than Meeker County.
McLeod County · Kandiyohi County · Wright County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Meeker County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.