The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-07, 389 days ago. Steele County is hit in most years. 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 2015-06-27 near Golden Lake.
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 2025-07-07, around Pillsbury. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Steele 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 43 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2017 alone produced 5 of the 24 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 24 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2017-07-04. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 6 of the 24 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 Finley -- 8 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Hope (7), Sharon (7), Golden Lake (3) and Luverne (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Finley | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 N Golden Lake | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 3 Ese Finley | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 10 Ene Hope | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Sw Finley | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 23 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (96%). July is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 4 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Pillsbury. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-07 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2020-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-24 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Griggs County (25 hail days), Traill County (25) and Nelson County (23). Steele County sits in between.
Griggs County · Traill County · Nelson County
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, Steele County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.