Hutchinson County was hit as recently as 2026-05-24, 68 days ago. Hutchinson 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 2011-08-28 near Menno.
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 2026-05-24, around Tripp. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hutchinson 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 84 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 2018, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
6 of the 40 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-05-24. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not May. 14 of the 40 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 Menno -- 13 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Freeman (12), Parkston (10), Clayton (6) and Tripp (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Olivet, Dimock and Scotland on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Freeman | 7 | 2.00″ |
| 3 ESE Menno | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Menno | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Tripp | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Olivet | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 33 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (28%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 5 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 7 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Tripp. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-24 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 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 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: Hanson County (15 hail days), Bon Homme County (35) and McCook County (35). Hutchinson County takes more hail than any of them.
Hanson County · Bon Homme County · McCook 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, Hutchinson County, South Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.