Dickey County was hit as recently as 2026-07-24, 7 days ago. Dickey County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.75 inches and 3.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-08-23 near Forbes.
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 2026-07-24, around Forbes. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dickey 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 52 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 9 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more, 31% of them, the last on 2026-07-24. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 11 of the 29 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ellendale -- 12 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Forbes (8), Fullerton (5), Oakes (4) and Guelph (4). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Merricourt and Monango on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Forbes | 3 | 3.00″ |
| Ellendale | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 7 Ne Forbes | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Fullerton | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Ne Guelph | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 26 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). July is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Forbes. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-24 | 3.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-14 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-20 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-13 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-08-23 | 3.75″ | 5 |
| 2020-08-09 | 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 3.75 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, over the state line included: LaMoure County (27 hail days), Sargent County (25), McIntosh County (30), Brown County, South Dakota (58) and McPherson County, South Dakota (42). Dickey County sits in between.
LaMoure County · Sargent County · McIntosh County · Brown County, South Dakota · McPherson County, South Dakota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dickey County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.