The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-25 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Bladen 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 2024-05-15 near Clarkton.
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 2025-06-25, around Clarkton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bladen 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 47 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 7 of the 24 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2024-05-15. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 6 of the 24 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Elizabethtown -- 8 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Bladenboro (5), White Lake (4), Clarkton (3) and Kelly (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Dublin and Jerome on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabethtown | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Kelly | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Bladenboro | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 ENE Clarkton | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Tobermory | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Clarkton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-15 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-07 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2019-09-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-18 | 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 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: Columbus County (26 hail days), Robeson County (24) and Sampson County (14). Bladen County sits in between.
Columbus County · Robeson County · Sampson 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, Bladen County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.