The most recent reported hail day was 2024-07-05 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Lincoln County is hit in most years. 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 2013-06-07 near Arabela.
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 2024-07-05, around Glencoe. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lincoln 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 56 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2021, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 2.5 a year before that.
6 of the 33 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-06-19. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 15 of the 33 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 Picacho -- 5 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Arabela (4), Corona (4), Tinnie (4) and Alto (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Capitan, Ruidoso, Lincoln, San Patricio, Bonito Lake, Glencoe, Fort Stanton and Ruidoso Downs on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Picacho | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Tinnie | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ne Ruidoso | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Capitan | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Arabela | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 27 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Glencoe. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-19 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-11 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-05-30 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-28 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-05-22 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2020-07-31 | 1.00″ | 3 |
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: Otero County (28 hail days), Chaves County (54) and Torrance County (21). Lincoln County sits in between.
Otero County · Chaves County · Torrance County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lincoln County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.