Dona Ana County, New Mexico Hail Map & History
The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-13, 366 days ago. Dona Ana County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-10-21 near Las Cruces.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in New Mexico. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2015 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2015-10-21. They land in the same month as everything else, October. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of New Mexico, see the New Mexico hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Dona Ana County
Reports cluster nearest Las Cruces -- 8 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Santa Teresa (3), Mesilla (2) and Dona Ana (2). That one town is named on 47% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Las Cruces | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ese Las Cruces | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Se Las Cruces | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 W Santa Teresa | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 S Las Cruces | 1 | 2.00″ |
When it hails in Dona Ana County
Dona Ana County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (April through October) to account for 88% of the 17 days on record. October is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (24%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in January and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Dona Ana County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Santa Teresa. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-10-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-26 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2019-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-19 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2017-01-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
How to read the Dona Ana County map
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 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Otero County (28 hail days), Grant County (13), Lincoln County (33) and El Paso County, Texas (23). Dona Ana County sits in between.
Otero County · Grant County · Lincoln County · El Paso County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dona Ana County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.