Renville County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Renville 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 2023-08-11 near Buffalo Lake.
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 Fairfax. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Renville 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 56 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
6 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2023-08-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. 10 of the 27 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 Olivia -- 6 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Renville (6), Sacred Heart (6), Fairfax (5) and Buffalo Lake (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Hector, Danube, Delhi, Lake Lillian and Franklin on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Renville | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Olivia | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Sacred Heart | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 1 ENE Olivia | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Hector | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs June through September: 22 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (33%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, April and May, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Fairfax. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-02 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2024-09-21 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-09-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 2.75″ | 2 |
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: Redwood County (22 hail days), Kandiyohi County (30) and Meeker County (26). Renville County sits in between.
Redwood County · Kandiyohi County · Meeker County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Renville County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.