Kidder County was hit as recently as 2026-06-29, 32 days ago. Kidder County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-05-09 near Lake Isabel.
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 2026-06-29, around Pettibone. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kidder 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 56 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2019, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Kidder County: all 39 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 39 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Pettibone -- 8 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Steele (7), Crystal Springs (5), Tuttle (5) and Lake Isabel (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Tappen, Robinson, Braddock and Kintyre on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal Springs | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Pettibone | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 10 N Braddock | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Robinson | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Wsw Robinson | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 38 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (97%). July is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 7 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 11 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pettibone. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Logan County (24 hail days), Stutsman County (43) and Burleigh County (54). Kidder County sits in between.
Logan County · Stutsman County · Burleigh County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kidder County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.