Hail Rapid City, SD

Over the last 7 days, no hail has been reported within 25 miles of Rapid City. That makes for a quiet week, but the year is not empty: Rapid City has collected 93 hail reports so far in 2026. The largest stone from those reports measured 3.60 inches and fell at 2 SSW Hermosa. Hail reports are drawn from National Weather Service Local Storm Reports filed by trained spotters, and the count covers a 25 miles radius around the city. This is the same radius used for the city's long-term hail averages.

as of 3:44 PM CDT, October 8, 2026

Every figure on this page covers a 25 mile circle centered on Rapid City. Between 2005 and 2025, the area averaged about 72.8 hail reports a year, coming on about 17.0 days. The largest hailstone since 1996 was 4.50 inches, on Jun 1, 2015.

National Weather Service offices file Local Storm Reports; the Iowa Environmental Mesonet of Iowa State University relays them to this page, where they appear as live spotter reports. Under 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright attaches to the government-produced figures on this page, including reports, alerts, station observations, and normals, which were created by the National Weather Service and other NOAA offices. The notice that 17 U.S.C. 403 requires appears in this sentence. It does not imply endorsement by or affiliation with those agencies. See: Data sources and attribution.

All South Dakota hail reports