The most recent reported hail day was 2024-07-16 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Cabarrus 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 2017-03-21 near Harrisburg.
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 2024-07-16, around Rockwell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cabarrus 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 38 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2017-03-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Concord -- 10 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Kannapolis (5), Harrisburg (4) and Mount Pleasant (4). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Concord | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Kannapolis | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Mount Pleasant | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Harrisburg | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 E Harrisburg | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 20 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (95%). June is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (43%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Rockwell. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2019-05-04 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2017-03-21 | 2.75″ | 2 |
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: Rowan County (15 hail days), Mecklenburg County (34) and Union County (19). Cabarrus County sits in between.
Rowan County · Mecklenburg County · Union 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, Cabarrus County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.