Eddy County, North Dakota Hail Map & History
Eddy County was hit as recently as 2026-08-24, 21 days ago. Eddy County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 Sheyenne.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Dakota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 53 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.5 a year before that.
4 of the 36 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2020-07-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 36 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Eddy County
Reports cluster nearest New Rockford -- 23 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Sheyenne (6), Brantford (6) and Hamar (6). That one town is named on 64% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| New Rockford | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ssw New Rockford | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 8 Sw New Rockford | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 10 E Sheyenne | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Sheyenne | 1 | 2.75″ |
When it hails in Eddy County
The season runs June through August: 34 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (94%). July is the single busiest month, with 13 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 | 1 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 13 |
| August | 10 |
| September | 1 |
Recent Eddy County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Binford. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-14 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-09-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-22 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-08-09 | 1.75″ | 4 |
How to read the Eddy 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: Foster County (18 hail days), Wells County (31) and Benson County (40). Eddy County sits in between.
Foster County · Wells County · Benson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Eddy County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.