Pembina County was hit as recently as 2026-07-26, 5 days ago. Pembina County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-07-19 near Crystal.
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 2026-07-26, around Walhalla. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pembina 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 35 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 64 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 2.6 a year before that.
6 of the 35 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-07-22. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not June. 12 of the 35 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Walhalla -- 9 of the county's 35 hail days -- then Crystal (5), Pembina (5), Cavalier (5) and St. Thomas (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Bathgate, Neche, Concrete, Bowesmont, Hamilton, Joliette, Saint Thomas and Leroy on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pembina | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Walhalla | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Cavalier | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Concrete | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 4 E Neche | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through August: 30 of the 35 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (34%). 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 | 2 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Walhalla. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2022-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-09 | 1.25″ | 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 3 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: Walsh County (28 hail days), Cavalier County (26), Grand Forks County (45) and Kittson County, Minnesota (29). Pembina County sits in between.
Walsh County · Cavalier County · Grand Forks County · Kittson County, Minnesota
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, Pembina County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.