Benson County was hit as recently as 2026-07-09, 22 days ago. Benson 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 2020-07-17 near Tokio.
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 2026-07-09, around Fillmore. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Benson 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 68 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 2016, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
5 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2020-07-17. They land in the same month as everything else, June.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Leeds -- 8 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Maddock (6), Esmond (5), Tokio (4) and St Michael (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Brinsmade, Fillmore, Minnewaukan, Harlow, Fort Totten, Oberon, York, Flora and Knox on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Tokio | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 4 SW Oberon | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Fort Totten | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 10 Ene Sheyenne | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs June through August: 35 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (90%). June is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (41%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| June | 16 |
| July | 13 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Fillmore. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-11 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-09 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-22 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2023-10-03 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-13 | 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 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: Pierce County (23 hail days), Ramsey County (33) and Eddy County (35). Benson County takes more hail than any of them.
Pierce County · Ramsey County · Eddy County
Back to the North Dakota hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Benson County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.