The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-13, 109 days ago. Steele County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-13 near Morristown.
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 2026-04-13, around Morristown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Steele 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 8 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2026-04-13. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 16 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 Owatonna -- 8 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Ellendale (3), Morristown (2), Lemond (2) and Hope (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Owatonna | 4 | 1.00″ |
| 1 N Owatonna | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Sw Owatonna | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 6 SE Morristown | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 2 NE Owatonna | 1 | 2.25″ |
The season runs April through September: 16 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (100%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Morristown. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-13 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-12 | 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 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: Waseca County (15 hail days), Dodge County (23) and Rice County (27). Steele County sits in between.
Waseca County · Dodge County · Rice County
Back to the Minnesota hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Steele County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.