Barnes County, North Dakota Hail Map & History
Barnes County was hit as recently as 2026-08-11, 34 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 2026-08-11, around Litchville. 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 55 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 91 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
6 of the 55 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2026-08-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 12 of the 55 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Barnes County
Reports cluster nearest Valley City -- 15 of the county's 55 hail days -- then Litchville (12), 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″ |
| Litchville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 4 N Hastings | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Fingal | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Rogers | 2 | 1.25″ |
When it hails in Barnes County
The season runs June through August: 45 of the 55 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). July is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (36%). 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 | 11 |
| September | 3 |
Recent Barnes County hail days
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Litchville. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 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 |
How to read the Barnes 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 2.75 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: Ransom County (25 hail days), Stutsman County (46) and Griggs County (25). Barnes County takes more hail than any of them.
Ransom County · Stutsman County · Griggs 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.