The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-22 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Griggs 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 2021-08-09 near Binford.
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 2025-06-22, around Binford. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Griggs 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 48 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
3 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2021-08-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 25 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cooperstown -- 10 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Binford (6), Hannaford (6), Jessie (3) and Sutton (3). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Red Willow Lake and Walum on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Binford | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Hannaford | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Cooperstown | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 7 N Binford | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 Ne Binford | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs June through August: 21 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (52%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. 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 | 13 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Binford. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-09-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-22 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-08-09 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2021-06-07 | 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: Steele County (24 hail days), Nelson County (23) and Foster County (17). Griggs County takes more hail than any of them.
Steele County · Nelson County · Foster County
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, Griggs County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.