The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-04, 330 days ago. Buncombe County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-08 near Barnardsville.
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 2025-09-04, around Black Mountain. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Buncombe 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 70 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: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 29 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 29 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2024-05-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 29 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Asheville -- 8 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Black Mountain (7), Barnardsville (5), Fairview (5) and Candler (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Weaverville, Leicester, Downtown Asheville and Swannanoa on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Asheville | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Candler | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Black Mountain | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Leicester | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Barnardsville | 2 | 3.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 27 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 5 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Black Mountain. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.75″ | 11 |
| 2024-05-08 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2016-05-01 | 1.50″ | 5 |
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 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: Henderson County (27 hail days), Madison County (16) and Haywood County (13). Buncombe County takes more hail than any of them.
Henderson County · Madison County · Haywood 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, Buncombe County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.