The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-28, 368 days ago. Faulk County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-07-28 near Cresbard.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in South Dakota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-07-28, around Cresbard. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Faulk 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 50 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
6 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-07-28. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 14 of the 30 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of South Dakota, see the South Dakota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Faulkton -- 7 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Chelsea (7), Orient (5), Brentwood Colony (4) and Burkmere (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Cresbard, Seneca, Norbeck and Miranda on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Faulkton | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 5 NE Cresbard | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 9 S Burkmere | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 1 N Orient | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 9 W Orient | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 29 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (97%). July is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (37%). 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 | 6 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 3.5 inches near Cresbard. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-28 | 3.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-19 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-05 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2022-05-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-07 | 1.25″ | 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 3.5 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: Edmunds County (42 hail days), Spink County (43) and Hand County (47). Every one of them takes more hail than Faulk County.
Edmunds County · Spink County · Hand County
Back to the South Dakota hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Faulk County, South Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.