The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-27, 369 days ago. Toole County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-07-07 near Shelby.
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 2025-07-27, around Sunburst. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Toole 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 10 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2022 alone produced 4 of the 14 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Toole County: all 14 hail days on record topped out below that. 5 of the 14 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 Shelby -- 4 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Sunburst (4), Ethridge (2), Ledger (2) and Devon (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Ferdig on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 12 E Ledger | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nw Sunburst | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Ne Shelby | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 6 N Ethridge | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Sunburst | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs July through August: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (86%). July is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (64%). Hail has also been reported in June, outside that window. Reports span 3 of the 12 calendar months; the other 9 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| June | 2 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Sunburst. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-08-07 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2016-07-15 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Glacier County (27 hail days), Teton County (22) and Chouteau County (25). Every one of them takes more hail than Toole County.
Glacier County · Teton County · Chouteau County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Toole County, Montana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.