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Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2025
25 red flag warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 25
- Busiest month
- May18 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20256 red flag warnings
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:01 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:11 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 41 hr |
| Mar 10, 2:19 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 19 hr |
| Mar 10, 2:27 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Pope and 7 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 16 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:23 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 18 hr |
| May 4, 2:06 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau | 19 hr |
| May 5, 2:48 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more | 18 hr |
| May 10, 2:14 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 67 hr |
| May 10, 2:35 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 18 hr |
| May 10, 1:47 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 55 hr |
| May 10, 2:05 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 32 hr |
| May 10, 2:24 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 32 hr |
| May 10, 2:24 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 33 more | 32 hr |
| May 11, 2:18 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 31 hr |
| May 11, 9:50 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 23 hr |
| May 11, 10:11 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 23 hr |
| May 13, 3:13 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 18 hr |
| May 13, 3:17 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kanabec and 20 more | 18 hr |
| May 13, 3:25 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 18 hr |
| May 13, 3:33 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 17 hr |
| May 13, 3:45 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 17 hr |
| May 20, 3:18 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 18 hr |
| May 20, 4:14 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Lake of the Woods | 17 hr |
| Nov 3, 9:15 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Pine, Saint Louis | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cottonwood County6
- Murray County6
- Pipestone County6
- Lincoln County5
- Lyon County5
- Jackson County5
- Nobles County5
- Rock County5
- Kittson County5
- Marshall County5
- Pennington County5
- Polk County5
- Red Lake County5
- Roseau County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Clay County4
- Clearwater County4
- Norman County4
- Wilkin County4
- Chippewa County4
- Douglas County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Meeker County4
- Pope County4
- Redwood County4
- Renville County4
- Stearns County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Todd County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Beltrami County4
- Lake of the Woods County4
- Aitkin County4
- Carlton County4
- Cook County4
- Itasca County4
- Koochiching County4
- Lake County4
40 more counties
- Pine County4
- Becker County3
- Grant County3
- Hubbard County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wadena County3
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Cass County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Benton County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Kanabec County3
- McLeod County3
- Martin County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Nicollet County3
- Sherburne County3
- Sibley County3
- Watonwan County3
- Wright County3
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Faribault County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Steele County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.