San Miguel County, New Mexico Hail Map & History
San Miguel County was hit as recently as 2026-08-19, 26 days ago. San Miguel County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.07 inches and 3.1 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-06-12 near Las Vegas.
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 2026-08-19, around Storrie Lake State. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls San Miguel 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 54 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 105 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 2017, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 17 days since 2022.
9 of the 54 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-06-19. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 18 of the 54 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of New Mexico, see the New Mexico hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in San Miguel County
Reports cluster nearest Las Vegas -- 11 of the county's 54 hail days -- then Bell Ranch (7), Villanueva (6), Mineral Hill (4) and Sapello (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Romeroville, San Jose, Pecos, Rociada, Mosquero, San Geronimo, South San Ysidro, San Antonio and Tierra Monte on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 12 ENE Bell Ranch | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Las Vegas | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Villanueva | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Sapello | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 SE Tierra Monte | 3 | 1.00″ |
When it hails in San Miguel County
The season runs May through August: 48 of the 54 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 20 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
Recent San Miguel County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Storrie Lake State. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-19 | 2.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the San Miguel 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 3.07 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: Mora County (37 hail days), Guadalupe County (31) and Santa Fe County (26). San Miguel County takes more hail than any of them.
Mora County · Guadalupe County · Santa Fe County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, San Miguel County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.