The most recent reported hail day was 2025-08-08, 357 days ago. Wright County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2019-08-05 near Delano.
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 2025-08-08, around Cokato. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wright 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 112 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 10 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2024-07-13. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 18 of the 39 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 Monticello -- 8 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Buffalo (8), Cokato (7), Delano (6) and Rockford (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Maple Lake, South Haven, Waverly, Annandale, Clearwater, Otsego, Winsted, Montrose and Becker on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rockford | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Cokato | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Maple Lake | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Monticello | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Buffalo | 4 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 34 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). July is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 10 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cokato. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-13 | 3.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-08-11 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-19 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-10 | 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 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: Sherburne County (25 hail days), Carver County (20) and Hennepin County (44). Wright County sits in between.
Sherburne County · Carver County · Hennepin 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, Wright County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.