Lea County was hit as recently as 2026-05-25, 67 days ago. Lea County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-04-11 near Crossroads.
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 2026-05-25, around Lovington. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lea 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 63 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 158 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 21 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 21 of the 63 days reached 2 inches or more, 33% of them, the last on 2025-06-06. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 37 of 63 -- 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 Hobbs -- 23 of the county's 63 hail days -- then Lovington (13), Jal (9), Tatum (6) and Eunice (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Halfway, Crossroads, Mcdonald, Nadine, Buckeye, Monument, Knowles, Maljamar and Oil Center on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hobbs | 9 | 2.00″ |
| Lovington | 9 | 2.00″ |
| Jal | 6 | 2.50″ |
| 1 W Hobbs | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 2 ESE Hobbs | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 51 of the 63 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 24 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 20 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Lovington. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-06 | 2.00″ | 9 |
| 2025-06-05 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-04-25 | 2.50″ | 7 |
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 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: Eddy County (65 hail days), Chaves County (54), Roosevelt County (47), Yoakum County, Texas (21) and Gaines County, Texas (29). Lea County sits in between.
Eddy County · Chaves County · Roosevelt County · Yoakum County, Texas · Gaines County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lea County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.