Eddy County was hit as recently as 2026-05-26, 66 days ago. Eddy County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-05-23 near Seven Rivers.
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 2026-05-26, around Whites City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Eddy 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 65 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 189 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 9 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 12 days since 2022, against 4.4 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 17 of the 65 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2025-05-05. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 36 of 65 -- 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 Carlsbad -- 30 of the county's 65 hail days -- then Artesia (19), Seven Rivers (8), Whites City (8) and Loving (7). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hope, Lakewood, Atoka, Malaga, Avalon, Otis, Queen, Halfway and Loco Hills on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Carlsbad | 12 | 2.50″ |
| Lakewood | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 10 S Artesia | 4 | 4.00″ |
| Seven Rivers | 4 | 4.00″ |
| Artesia | 4 | 2.50″ |
The season runs May through October: 58 of the 65 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (32%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, April and November, outside that window. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 19 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 8 |
| November | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Whites City. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-04 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-11-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-11-01 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-12 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-10 | 1.50″ | 2 |
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 4.25 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: Chaves County (54 hail days), Lea County (63), Otero County (28), Loving County, Texas (14) and Culberson County, Texas (16). Eddy County takes more hail than any of them.
Chaves County · Lea County · Otero County · Loving County, Texas · Culberson County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Eddy County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.