The most recent reported hail day was 2022-04-07 -- 4 years ago, with nothing reported since. 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 2022-04-07, around Leggett. 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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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2019-05-31. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Rocky Mount -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Speed (3), Kingsboro (2), Macclesfield (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″ |
| 2 Wsw Leggett | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sw Kingsboro | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Leggett | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nw Princeville | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 4 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Leggett. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2012-07-04 | 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 2.5 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: Nash County (21 hail days), Wilson County (17) and Halifax County (14). Every one of them takes more hail than Edgecombe County.
Nash County · Wilson County · Halifax 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, Edgecombe County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.