The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Rice County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-07-13 near Nerstrand.
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 2026-04-17, around Faribault. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rice 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 74 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 27 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
6 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-04-13. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 7 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 Faribault -- 12 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Northfield (7), Morristown (7), Lonsdale (6) and Dundas (4). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Nerstrand on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Faribault | 5 | 1.00″ |
| Lonsdale | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Morristown | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Northfield | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 4 NE Faribault | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 24 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Faribault. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-13 | 3.00″ | 8 |
| 2025-08-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-13 | 3.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.00″ | 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 3.5 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: Le Sueur County (27 hail days), Steele County (16) and Scott County (28). Rice County sits in between.
Le Sueur County · Steele County · Scott County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rice County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.