Meade County was hit as recently as 2026-07-07, 24 days ago. Meade County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-06-12 near Elm Springs.
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 2026-07-07, around Summerset. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Meade 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 151 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 8.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 412 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 2023, with 13 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 40 days since 2022.
25 of the 151 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-06-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 59 of the 151 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 Piedmont -- 31 of the county's 151 hail days -- then Tilford (30), Summerset (20), Black Hawk (19) and Downtown Sturgis (19). Beyond those, NOAA names Ellsworth AFB, Hereford, Sturgis, Elm Springs, Union Center, Opal, Faith, Enning and Mud Butte on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 NNW Piedmont | 20 | 2.75″ |
| Tilford | 15 | 2.50″ |
| Summerset | 14 | 3.00″ |
| Black Hawk | 11 | 2.50″ |
| 7 NNE Ellsworth AFB | 11 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 138 of the 151 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). July is the single busiest month, with 50 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, 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 | 3 |
| May | 23 |
| June | 42 |
| July | 50 |
| August | 23 |
| September | 8 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Summerset. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-07-02 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2026-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-01 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-10 | 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 4 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: Pennington County (224 hail days), Lawrence County (121) and Butte County (74). Meade County sits in between.
Pennington County · Lawrence County · Butte 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, Meade County, South Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.