Golden Valley County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Golden Valley 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 2026-06-07 near Medora.
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 2026-07-02, around Beach. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Golden Valley 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 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 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 10 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
5 of the 23 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-07. 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 Beach -- 11 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Sentinel Butte (4), Medora (3), Alpha (2) and Golva (2). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Trotters on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Beach | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 2 N Beach | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 NE Sentinel Butte | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 10 SW Medora | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 23 Sw Medora | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 4 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Beach. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-07 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-20 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-29 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2023-07-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-19 | 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, over the state line included: Billings County (23 hail days), Slope County (23), Stark County (51), Wibaux County, Montana (28) and Fallon County, Montana (41). Golden Valley County sits in between.
Billings County · Slope County · Stark County · Wibaux County, Montana · Fallon County, Montana
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, Golden Valley County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.