Wadena County, Minnesota Hail Map & History
Wadena County was hit as recently as 2026-09-11, 3 days ago. Wadena County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-08-03 near Wadena.
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 2026-09-11, around Blue Grass. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wadena 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 71 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
4 of the 34 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-06-10. They land in the same month as everything else, June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 34 days.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Wadena County
Reports cluster nearest Wadena -- 11 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Verndale (7), Nimrod (7), Sebeka (6) and Menahga (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Blue Grass, Staples Airport, Aldrich, Huntersville and Oylen on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wadena | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Menahga | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Verndale | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 4 NE Wadena | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Ne Wadena | 2 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Wadena County
The season runs June through August: 28 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (32%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, May and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 8 |
| September | 2 |
Recent Wadena County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Blue Grass. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-10 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-08-03 | 4.00″ | 11 |
| 2022-07-10 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Wadena County map
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 4 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Otter Tail County (67 hail days), Todd County (26) and Cass County (47). Wadena County sits in between.
Otter Tail County · Todd County · Cass County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wadena County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.