The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Caldwell County is hit in most years. 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 2025-05-08 near Hudson.
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 2025-05-08, around Hudson. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Caldwell 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. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Caldwell County: all 24 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 24 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lenoir -- 9 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Patterson (4), Hudson (3), Kings Creek (3) and Gamewell (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Globe, Granite Falls, Sawmills, Cajah's Mountain, Collettsville and Rhodhiss on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lenoir | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 1 W Hudson | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Sawmills | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sw Patterson | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Gamewell | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Hudson. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-26 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-09-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-01 | 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: Burke County (57 hail days), Watauga County (20) and Catawba County (30). Caldwell County sits in between.
Burke County · Watauga County · Catawba 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, Caldwell County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.