The most recent reported hail day was 2025-08-11, 354 days ago. Wilkin County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-08-27 near Everdell.
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 2025-08-11, around Campbell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wilkin 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Wilkin County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. 5 of the 20 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 Campbell -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Breckenridge (4), Doran (3), Foxhome (3) and Kent (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Barnesville, Rothsay, Lawndale and Wolverton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Campbell | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 E Breckenridge | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nne Campbell | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Sw Doran | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 7 Wsw Barnesville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through August: 18 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (90%). August is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in April and May, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 7 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Campbell. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-04 | 1.25″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Grant County (30 hail days), Clay County (37), Traverse County (20) and Richland County, North Dakota (39). Wilkin County sits in between.
Grant County · Clay County · Traverse County · Richland County, North Dakota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wilkin County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.