Pierce County was hit as recently as 2026-07-09, 22 days ago. Pierce 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 2026-07-09 near Silva.
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 2026-07-09, around Silva. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pierce 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 31 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 2016, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 23 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2026-07-09. They land in the same month as everything else, July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Selz -- 7 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Rugby (5), Silva (2), Balta (2) and Nanson (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Orrin and Wolford on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rugby | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Selz | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Wolford | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Sse Rugby | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 3 NE Silva | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs June through August: 21 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (91%). July is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (48%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| June | 6 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Silva. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-22 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-19 | 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 2.5 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: Benson County (39 hail days), McHenry County (34) and Wells County (31). Every one of them takes more hail than Pierce County.
Benson County · McHenry County · Wells County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pierce County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.