The most recent reported hail day was 2024-04-20 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Brunswick County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-04-05 near Sandy Hill.
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 2024-04-20, around Supply. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Brunswick 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 39 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2017-04-05. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not July. 5 of the 20 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 Leland -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Winnabow (4), Holden Beach (3), Calabash (2) and Supply (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Longwood, Sandy Creek and Sunset Beach on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Supply | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Holden Beach | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 W Leland | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Leland | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Ene Sandy Hill | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). July is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (25%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Supply. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-20 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-02 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-06-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-04-05 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2016-05-03 | 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 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), Pender County (17) and Bladen County (24). Brunswick County sits in between.
Columbus County · Pender County · Bladen 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, Brunswick County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.