The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Scott County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2019-07-17 near Prior 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 2025-06-16, around Prior Lake. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Scott 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 52 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 28 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2022-05-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 7 of the 28 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 Prior Lake -- 8 of the county's 28 hail days -- then New Prague (8), Shakopee (7), Belle Plaine (4) and Elko New Market (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Savage and Credit River on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Prior Lake | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Belle Plaine | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 1 S Shakopee | 2 | 2.00″ |
| New Prague | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Savage | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 23 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Prior Lake. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-11 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-17 | 1.00″ | 4 |
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: Carver County (20 hail days), Dakota County (47) and Hennepin County (44). Scott County sits in between.
Carver County · Dakota County · Hennepin County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Scott County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.