Dawson County was hit as recently as 2026-06-06, 55 days ago. Dawson 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 2021-06-08 near Glendive.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Montana. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-06, around Lindsay. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dawson 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 37 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 86 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 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
7 of the 37 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-08-07. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 16 of the 37 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Montana, see the Montana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lindsay -- 14 of the county's 37 hail days -- then Glendive (12), Richey (8), Bloomfield (5) and Marsh (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Terry, Forest Park and Intake on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Glendive | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Lindsay | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 8 Sse Richey | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 9 Nnw Marsh | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 9 E Glendive | 2 | 4.00″ |
The season runs May through July: 32 of the 37 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (41%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 5 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lindsay. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-07 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2025-07-19 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-21 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-30 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-11 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-05-25 | 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: Prairie County (33 hail days), Wibaux County (28) and McCone County (43). Dawson County sits in between.
Prairie County · Wibaux County · McCone County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dawson County, Montana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.