The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-17, 317 days ago. Colfax County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-07-08 near Abbott.
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 2025-09-17, around Sugarite Canyon Sta. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Colfax 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 64 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 111 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 9 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 19 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 6 of the 64 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2025-08-10. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 20 of the 64 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 Springer -- 14 of the county's 64 hail days -- then Raton (12), Maxwell (10), Raton Crews Airpo (7) and Abbott (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Cimarron, Farley, Vermejo Park, Philmont Scout Ra, Maxwell National, Philmont Scout Ranch, Raton Crews Airport, Black Lake and Sugarite Canyon S on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Springer | 7 | 1.75″ |
| 3 NNE Raton Crews Airpo | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Raton | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 1 N Farley | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Abbott | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 59 of the 64 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (92%). June is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (33%). 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 | 12 |
| June | 21 |
| July | 17 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Sugarite Canyon Sta. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-10 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2025-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-19 | 1.50″ | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Mora County (35 hail days), Harding County (28), Union County (70) and Las Animas County, Colorado (51). Colfax County sits in between.
Mora County · Harding County · Union County · Las Animas County, Colorado
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Colfax County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.