Phillips County, Montana Hail Map & History
Phillips County was hit as recently as 2026-09-06, 8 days ago. Phillips County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.25 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-09-06 near Landusky.
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 2026-09-06, around Landusky. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Phillips 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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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 82 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 2010, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 7 days since 2022, against 2.5 a year before that.
6 of the 37 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-09-06. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 14 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.
Hardest-hit places in Phillips County
Reports cluster nearest Zortman -- 7 of the county's 37 hail days -- then Fourchette (6), Malta (6), Saco (6) and Landusky (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Dodson, Whitewater, Sun Prairie, Wagner, Phillips, Sleeping Buffalo, Content, Chapman and Frenchman Reservoir on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wagner | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Zortman | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 7 N Fourchette | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 7 W Landusky | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 8 N Fourchette | 2 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Phillips County
The season runs June through August: 31 of the 37 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (35%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in May and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 3 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 13 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
Recent Phillips County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 3.25 inches near Landusky. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-06 | 3.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-13 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-06 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2022-07-05 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-07-08 | 1.50″ | 6 |
How to read the Phillips County map
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 3.25 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Blaine County (20 hail days), Valley County (63) and Garfield County (48). Phillips County sits in between.
Blaine County · Valley County · Garfield County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Phillips County, Montana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.