Burke County, North Dakota Hail Map & History
The most recent reported hail day was 2025-08-07 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Burke County is hit in most years. 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 2018-06-14 near Portal.
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 2025-08-07, around Powers Lake. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Burke 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 43 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 25 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2018-06-14. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 11 of the 25 days 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 Burke County
Reports cluster nearest Columbus -- 6 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Flaxton (5), Bowbells (5), Lignite (5) and Battleview (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Northgate, Powers Lake and Portal on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Flaxton | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Powers Lake | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Columbus | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 6 N Columbus | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lignite | 2 | 1.50″ |
When it hails in Burke County
The season runs June through August: 24 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (96%). July is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 | 9 |
| July | 10 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
Recent Burke County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Powers Lake. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-07 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-06 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-06-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-06-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-22 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-09-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
How to read the Burke 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: Renville County (30 hail days), Divide County (26) and Mountrail County (46). Every one of them takes more hail than Burke County.
Renville County · Divide County · Mountrail County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Burke County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.