The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-21, 313 days ago. Waseca County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-06-25 near Waldorf.
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 2025-09-21, around New Richland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Waseca 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 20 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 2020, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-09-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 4 of the 15 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 Waseca -- 7 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Waldorf (4), New Richland (4) and Janesville (2). That one town is named on 47% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Waseca | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Ne Waldorf | 2 | 4.25″ |
| New Richland | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 6 NNW New Richland | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Ne New Richland | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near New Richland. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-21 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-08-10 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-06-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-13 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-08-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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 4.25 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: Steele County (16 hail days), Freeborn County (21) and Blue Earth County (23). Every one of them takes more hail than Waseca County.
Steele County · Freeborn County · Blue Earth County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Waseca County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.