The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-31, 365 days ago. Missoula County is hit in most years. 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 2022-07-08 near Evaro.
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 2025-07-31, around Lolo. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Missoula 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 54 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 22 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2022-07-08. They land in the same month as everything else, July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Montana, see the Montana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Missoula -- 8 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Seeley Lake (7), Lolo (5), Condon (3) and Clinton (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Florence, Clearwater, Frenchtown, Huson and Potomac on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Seeley Lake | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nw Missoula | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nw Potomac | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 Nw Missoula | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Clinton | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs June through August: 20 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (91%). July is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (50%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in May, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 2 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Lolo. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-06 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-07-09 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-08 | 2.50″ | 12 |
| 2022-07-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-18 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-07-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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: Ravalli County (21 hail days), Powell County (14) and Lewis and Clark County (22). Missoula County sits in between.
Ravalli County · Powell County · Lewis and Clark County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Missoula County, Montana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.