The most recent reported hail day was 2024-06-02 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. McIntosh County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-06-07 near Venturia.
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 2024-06-02, around Zeeland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls McIntosh 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 52 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.0 a year before that.
5 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2021-06-07. They land in the same month as everything else, June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 7 of the 30 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ashley -- 14 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Wishek (5), Zeeland (5), Venturia (3) and Fredonia (3). That one town is named on 47% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Green Lake, Lehr, Danzig and Hague on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wishek | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 10 E Ashley | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Zeeland | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Ashley | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 7 SSE Fredonia | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 27 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and April, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 5 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Zeeland. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-08 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-07 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2020-06-07 | 2.50″ | 3 |
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 2.5 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: Logan County (24 hail days), Emmons County (29), Dickey County (29), McPherson County, South Dakota (42) and Campbell County, South Dakota (28). McIntosh County sits in between.
Logan County · Emmons County · Dickey County · McPherson County, South Dakota · Campbell County, South Dakota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, McIntosh County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.