Edgecombe County, North Carolina Hail Map & History
Edgecombe County was hit as recently as 2026-09-05, 9 days ago. Edgecombe County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-05-31 near Speed.
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 2026-09-05, around Macclesfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Edgecombe 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 22 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: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 14 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2019-05-31. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 4 of the 14 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Edgecombe County
Reports cluster nearest Rocky Mount -- 4 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Speed (3), Macclesfield (3), Kingsboro (2) and Pinetops (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Whitakers on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Macclesfield | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wsw Leggett | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sw Kingsboro | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Leggett | 1 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Edgecombe County
The season runs May through October: 13 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (93%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
Recent Edgecombe County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Macclesfield. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-07 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-31 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-10-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-08-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2012-10-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Edgecombe County map
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 2.5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Nash County (21 hail days), Wilson County (17) and Halifax County (14). Edgecombe County sits in between.
Nash County · Wilson County · Halifax County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Edgecombe County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.