The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-24, 372 days ago. De Baca County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-10-21 near Taiban.
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 2025-07-24, around Taiban. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls De Baca 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 45 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 27 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2017-05-22. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 8 of the 27 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 Fort Sumner -- 12 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Yeso (8), Taiban (5), Sumner Lake (4) and Mesa (2). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Sumner | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 15 S Fort Sumner | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 16 Ene Sumner Lake | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Yeso | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Yeso | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through September: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Taiban. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-08-29 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-03 | 1.75″ | 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 2.5 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: Guadalupe County (30 hail days), Roosevelt County (47) and Curry County (45). Every one of them takes more hail than De Baca County.
Guadalupe County · Roosevelt County · Curry County
Back to the New Mexico hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, De Baca County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.