Stark County, North Dakota Hail Map & History
Stark County was hit as recently as 2026-09-23, 37 days ago. Stark 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 2025-06-19 near Schefield.
Hail size, inches
- 0.25 in, pea
- 0.75 in, penny
- 1 in, quarter
- 1.25 in, half dollar
- 1.5 in, ping pong ball
- 1.75 in, golf ball
- 2 in, hen egg
- 2.5 in, tennis ball
- 3 in and up, teacup
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 2026-09-23, around South Heart. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Stark 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 ->How often it hails in Stark County
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 54 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 102 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2026, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
11 of the 54 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-09-23. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 21 of the 54 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Dakota, see the North Dakota hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Stark County
Reports cluster nearest Dickinson -- 15 of the county's 54 hail days -- then Belfield (14), Richardton (9), Taylor (7) and South Heart (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Lefor, Gladstone, Schefield and Hebron on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dickinson | 8 | 2.00″ |
| Belfield | 7 | 1.75″ |
| South Heart | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Taylor | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 5 N Richardton | 2 | 3.00″ |
When it hails in Stark County
The season runs June through September: 50 of the 54 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). July is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in May, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 4 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 17 |
| August | 11 |
| September | 7 |
Recent Stark County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near South Heart. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-09-06 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-09 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-20 | 2.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-19 | 3.00″ | 8 |
How to read the Stark County map
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Deep violet is about an inch, the violet grows lighter as the hail grows, and pale lilac to near-white is 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 3 inches, which is the pale lilac band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Billings County (24 hail days), Hettinger County (49) and Dunn County (41). Stark County takes more hail than any of them.
Billings County · Hettinger County · Dunn County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Stark County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.