Billings County, North Dakota Hail Map & History
Billings County was hit as recently as 2026-08-23, 22 days ago. Billings County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-07-02 near South Fairfield.
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 2026-08-23, around Medora. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Billings 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 48 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 8 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more, 33% of them, the last on 2026-07-02. They land in the same month as everything else, June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 14 of 24 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Billings County
Reports cluster nearest South Fairfield -- 11 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Fairfield (10), Medora (7) and Amidon (2). That one town is named on 46% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 S South Fairfield | 3 | 2.50″ |
| South Fairfield | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Medora | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 5 SW Medora | 2 | 3.00″ |
| 1 S Fairfield | 2 | 2.00″ |
When it hails in Billings County
The season runs June through August: 21 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (33%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| June | 8 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
Recent Billings County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Medora. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-07-02 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-07 | 3.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-19 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-12 | 2.00″ | 3 |
How to read the Billings 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 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: Stark County (53 hail days), Golden Valley County (23) and Dunn County (41). Billings County sits in between.
Stark County · Golden Valley County · Dunn County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Billings County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.