The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-26, 400 days ago. Gaston County is hit in most years. 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 2018-04-15 near Belmont.
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 2025-06-26, around Cherryville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gaston 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 62 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 26 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 26 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2018-04-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 26 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Gastonia -- 12 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Bessemer City (5), Crowders (5), Belmont (3) and Cramerton (3). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Cherryville, Dallas, Stanley, Mount Holly and McAdenville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gastonia | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Belmont | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Bessemer City | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 2 Sw Gastonia | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Dallas | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 21 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (31%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Cherryville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-26 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-06 | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Lincoln County (17 hail days), Mecklenburg County (34), Cleveland County (24) and York County, South Carolina (29). Gaston County sits in between.
Lincoln County · Mecklenburg County · Cleveland County · York County, South Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gaston County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.