Spink County was hit as recently as 2026-06-04, 57 days ago. Spink 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 2013-06-21 near Hillside 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 Cottonwood Lake. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Spink 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 43 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 80 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
6 of the 43 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2025-07-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 15 of the 43 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 Redfield -- 9 of the county's 43 hail days -- then Tulare (9), Mellette (6), Ashton (5) and Doland (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Frankfort, Turton, Hillside Colony, Burdette, Mansfield, Northville, Athol, Brentford and Conde on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mellette | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Doland | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Redfield | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 2 N Ashton | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Tulare | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 38 of the 43 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). July is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (42%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 | 1 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 18 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Cottonwood Lake. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-28 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-21 | 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: Faulk County (30 hail days), Clark County (32) and Beadle County (36). Spink County takes more hail than any of them.
Faulk County · Clark County · Beadle 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, Spink County, South Dakota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.