Hand County was hit as recently as 2026-06-04, 57 days ago. Hand 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 2024-06-02 near Miller Dale Colony.
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 2026-06-04, around Miller Dale Colony. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hand 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 47 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 96 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2018, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
7 of the 47 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-06-02. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 15 of the 47 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 Polo -- 13 of the county's 47 hail days -- then Miller (12), Vayland (7), Miller Dale Colony (6) and Saint Lawrence (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Danforth, Burdette, Wessington, Ames, Zell, Sunshine Bible Acad, Orient, Ree Heights and Rockham on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Miller Dale Colony | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 7 Ene Polo | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 7 N Saint Lawrence | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 9 E Sunshine Bible Acad | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 3 Sw Polo | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 42 of the 47 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 13 |
| August | 10 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Miller Dale Colony. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-04 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-02 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-08-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 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 2.75 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: Hyde County (28 hail days), Buffalo County (17) and Beadle County (36). Hand County takes more hail than any of them.
Hyde County · Buffalo County · Beadle County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hand County, South Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.