The most recent reported hail day was 2022-08-05 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Ransom County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-06-07 near Fort Ransom.
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 2022-08-05, around McLeod. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ransom 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 53 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 2021, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.9 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 25 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2021-06-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 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 Enderlin -- 11 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Lisbon (7), Fort Ransom (6), Sheldon (6) and McLeod (4). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Englevale on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Enderlin | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Fort Ransom | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Sw Enderlin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Nw Lisbon | 2 | 1.75″ |
| McLeod | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through August: 24 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (96%). July is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (52%). 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 | 13 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near McLeod. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-10 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2021-07-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-07 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2020-08-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-07-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-20 | 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 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: Sargent County (25 hail days), Barnes County (54) and Cass County (60). Ransom County sits in between.
Sargent County · Barnes County · Cass County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ransom County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.