Sawyer County was hit as recently as 2026-05-26, 66 days ago. Sawyer County is hit in most years. 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 2015-08-02 near New Post.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Wisconsin. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-26, around Little Round Lake. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sawyer 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 89 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 2019, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.0 a year before that.
5 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2022-05-09. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 10 of the 30 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Wisconsin, see the Wisconsin hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hayward -- 15 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Little Round Lake (9), Winter (8), Northwoods Beach (5) and Seeley (4). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names New Post, Stone Lake, Birchwood and Loretta on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hayward | 5 | 2.50″ |
| 4 Nw Winter | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 2 W Hayward | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 3 N Winter | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 1 NE Hayward | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through September: 29 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (97%). July is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 6 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Little Round Lake. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-26 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-09-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-18 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-09 | 2.50″ | 10 |
| 2021-07-26 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-13 | 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 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: Washburn County (19 hail days), Bayfield County (26) and Barron County (24). Sawyer County takes more hail than any of them.
Washburn County · Bayfield County · Barron County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sawyer County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.