The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-13, 109 days ago. Wabasha County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-13 near Bellechester.
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 Bellechester. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wabasha 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 62 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 7 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: 9 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
3 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 6 of the 17 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 Plainview -- 6 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Lake City (6), Kellogg (4), Wabasha (4) and Elgin (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Bellechester, Oak Center, Zumbro Falls and Hammond on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lake City | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 4 NNE Plainview | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Plainview | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Wabasha | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Elgin | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through July: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 10 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Bellechester. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | 2.50″ | 10 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-11 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2022-05-09 | 1.25″ | 3 |
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 2.5 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, over the state line included: Olmsted County (27 hail days), Goodhue County (23), Winona County (33), Buffalo County, Wisconsin (19) and Pierce County, Wisconsin (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Wabasha County.
Olmsted County · Goodhue County · Winona County · Buffalo County, Wisconsin · Pierce County, Wisconsin
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wabasha County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.