Pipestone County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Pipestone County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-13 near Jasper.
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 2026-07-02, around Lake Benton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pipestone 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. Those days carry 40 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2014, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Pipestone County: all 21 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Pipestone -- 9 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Edgerton (5), Jasper (3), Holland (3) and Woodstock (2). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Ruthton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Edgerton | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Jasper | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 W Pipestone | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Pipestone | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 N Hatfield | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 19 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (90%). July is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lake Benton. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-24 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2025-08-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2022-04-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-12 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-08-28 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Rock County (25 hail days), Murray County (25), Lincoln County (22) and Moody County, South Dakota (18). Pipestone County sits in between.
Rock County · Murray County · Lincoln County · Moody County, South Dakota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pipestone County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.