Ward County, North Dakota Hail Map & History
Ward County was hit as recently as 2026-08-10, 35 days ago. Ward County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-09-20 near Tagus.
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 2026-08-10, around Douglas. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ward 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 56 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 98 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2010, with 9 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
7 of the 56 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2020-07-17. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 16 of the 56 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 Ward County
Reports cluster nearest Minot -- 20 of the county's 56 hail days -- then Kenmare (9), Douglas (6), Berthold (5) and Burlington (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Sawyer, Logan, Minot Air Force Base, Tagus, Rice Lake, Surrey, Donnybrook, Minot Air Force Ba and Des Lacs on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Minot | 11 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Minot | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Kenmare | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Minot Air Force Base | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Douglas | 3 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Ward County
The season runs June through August: 49 of the 56 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). July is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, May and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 17 |
| July | 20 |
| August | 12 |
| September | 2 |
Recent Ward County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Douglas. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-06 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-30 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-07-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
How to read the Ward 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. 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 2.75 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Renville County (30 hail days), Mountrail County (46) and McHenry County (36). Ward County takes more hail than any of them.
Renville County · Mountrail County · McHenry County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ward County, North Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.