The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-15 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Craven County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2014-07-28 near Havelock.
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 2025-05-15, around James City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Craven 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 38 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2014-07-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 5 of the 17 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 Vanceboro -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Havelock (4), James City (4), Jasper (2) and Bridgeton (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Ernul and Fort Barnwell on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Havelock | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Fort Barnwell | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Vanceboro | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Ne Vanceboro | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 Wnw James City | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). 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 | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near James City. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2022-06-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2020-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-10 | 1.75″ | 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 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: Beaufort County (17 hail days), Onslow County (16) and Pitt County (21). Craven County sits in between.
Beaufort County · Onslow County · Pitt 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, Craven County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.