Pennington County was hit as recently as 2026-07-24, 7 days ago. Pennington County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-06-24 near Goodridge.
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 2026-07-24, around Goodridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pennington 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 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 8 days since 2022.
4 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-07-24. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not August. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Thief River Falls -- 9 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Goodridge (6), High Landing (4) and St. Hilaire (3). That one town is named on 43% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 ESE Goodridge | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 5 E Goodridge | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 6 E Goodridge | 1 | 2.00″ |
| Goodridge | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 6 Ene Thief River Falls | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through August: 19 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (90%). August is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (38%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in May and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 1 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Goodridge. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-24 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-24 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-01 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-24 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-12 | 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 2.75 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: Red Lake County (16 hail days), Marshall County (41) and Polk County (59). Pennington County sits in between.
Red Lake County · Marshall County · Polk County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pennington County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.