Judith Basin County was hit as recently as 2026-07-16, 15 days ago. Judith Basin County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-07-14 near Hobson.
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 2026-07-16, around Utica. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Judith Basin 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 55 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none 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.
4 of the 33 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-07-14. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 12 of the 33 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 Hobson -- 11 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Stanford (9), Benchland (5), Utica (5) and Geyser (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Moccasin, Raynesford and Windham on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hobson | 7 | 2.00″ |
| 2 NW Benchland | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 5 SW Stanford | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Stanford | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Se Geyser | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs June through July: 27 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (48%). Hail has also been reported in May and August, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 1 |
| June | 16 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 5 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Utica. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-07-14 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-07-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-15 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-14 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-06-21 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-20 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-07-06 | 2.00″ | 4 |
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 2.5 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: Fergus County (48 hail days), Wheatland County (16) and Chouteau County (25). Judith Basin County sits in between.
Fergus County · Wheatland County · Chouteau County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Judith Basin County, Montana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.