The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-26, 370 days ago. Barnes County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-06-07 near Litchville.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Dakota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-07-26, around Valley City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Barnes 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 54 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 88 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 2022, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 5 of the 54 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2021-06-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in September, not July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 11 of the 54 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Valley City -- 15 of the county's 54 hail days -- then Litchville (11), Pillsbury (5), Oriska (5) and Fingal (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Nome, Dazey, Kathryn, Sibley, Bald Hill Dam, Rogers, Eckelson, Sanborn and Hastings on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Valley City | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 4 N Hastings | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Fingal | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Rogers | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 15 N Valley City | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs June through August: 44 of the 54 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). July is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 | 7 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 20 |
| August | 10 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Valley City. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-28 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-21 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-20 | 1.25″ | 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 2.75 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: Ransom County (25 hail days), Griggs County (25) and Stutsman County (43). Barnes County takes more hail than any of them.
Ransom County · Griggs County · Stutsman County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Barnes County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.