The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-15 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Beaufort 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 2025-05-15 near Cox Crossing.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Carolina. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-15, around Cox Crossing. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Beaufort 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 34 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Beaufort County: all 17 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Washington -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Chocowinity (3), Cox Crossing (2), Old Ford (2) and Pantego (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Pinetown on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Chocowinity | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Pantego | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nnw Washington | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NW Cox Crossing | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (53%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Cox Crossing. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-10 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-03 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-30 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-05-13 | 1.75″ | 8 |
| 2017-05-25 | 1.00″ | 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: Martin County (15 hail days), Pitt County (21) and Craven County (17). Beaufort County sits in between.
Martin County · Pitt County · Craven County
Back to the North Carolina hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Beaufort County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.