The most recent reported hail day was 2023-08-15 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Davidson County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2023-06-26 near Lexington.
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 2023-08-15, around Sedge Garden. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Davidson 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. They carry 33 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2016 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2023-06-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lexington -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Thomasville (4), Welcome (4), Denton (2) and Sedge Garden (2). Beyond those, NOAA names High Point on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lexington | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 4 WSW Thomasville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 NNE Lexington | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 S Denton | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Wsw Martha | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Sedge Garden. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-15 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-26 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-04-14 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2021-05-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2017-03-01 | 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 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: Forsyth County (22 hail days), Randolph County (21) and Davie County (18). Davidson County sits in between.
Forsyth County · Randolph County · Davie 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, Davidson County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.