The most recent reported hail day was 2025-10-07, 297 days ago. Socorro County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-09-29 near Veguita.
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 2025-10-07, around Alamo. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Socorro 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 18 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 5 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Socorro County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of New Mexico, see the New Mexico hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Socorro -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Veguita (2) and Alamo (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Veguita | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Socorro | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 1 N Socorro | 1 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nne Socorro | 1 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Se Gran Quivira | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs June through October: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (38%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in May, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 2 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Alamo. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-07 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-10-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-03 | 1.25″ | 1 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Bernalillo County (27 hail days), Torrance County (21) and Lincoln County (33). Every one of them takes more hail than Socorro County.
Bernalillo County · Torrance County · Lincoln County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Socorro County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.