Lincoln County was hit as recently as 2026-05-24, 68 days ago. Lincoln County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-04-28 near Beresford.
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 Harrisburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lincoln 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 69 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Lincoln County: all 32 hail days on record topped out below that. 8 of the 32 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 Harrisburg -- 15 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Tea (9), Canton (8), Sioux Falls (7) and Beresford (3). That one town is named on 47% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hudson, Worthing and Lennox on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Harrisburg | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ene Tea | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 4 SSE Sioux Falls | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Tea | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Canton | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 29 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (91%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Harrisburg. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.50″ | 7 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-30 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-29 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Minnehaha County (37 hail days), Turner County (26), Clay County (25), Lyon County, Iowa (30) and Rock County, Minnesota (25). Lincoln County sits in between.
Minnehaha County · Turner County · Clay County · Lyon County, Iowa · Rock County, Minnesota
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, Lincoln County, South Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.