The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-22 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Chaves County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2021-05-28 near Dexter.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in New Mexico. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-06-22, around Roswell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chaves 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 54 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 105 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 2019, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
10 of the 54 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-04-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 25 of the 54 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of New Mexico, see the New Mexico hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Roswell -- 17 of the county's 54 hail days -- then Dexter (10), Lake Arthur (7), Dunken (6) and Mesa (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Elkins, Hagerman, Midway, Elk, Two Rivers Dam and Kenna on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Wsw Dexter | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Dexter | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Nnw Dunken | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 25 W Lake Arthur | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 16 E Elkins | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through October: 49 of the 54 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (91%). May is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (39%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 8 |
| October | 6 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Roswell. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-26 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-10-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-09-21 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-11 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-15 | 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: Eddy County (65 hail days), Lincoln County (33) and Otero County (28). Chaves County sits in between.
Eddy County · Lincoln County · Otero County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chaves County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.