The most recent reported hail day was 2024-12-31 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Granville County is hit in most years. 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 2016-02-24 near Oxford.
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 2024-12-31, around Oak Hill. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Granville 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. They carry 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2016-02-24. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in February, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Creedmoor -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Oxford (3), Oak Hill (3), Butner (3) and Stem (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Kerr Lake and Stovall on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Oxford | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 E Stem | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 SE Oak Hill | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Creedmoor | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 N Stem | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through June: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). 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, September and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Oak Hill. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2016-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-02-24 | 2.50″ | 4 |
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: Person County (17 hail days), Franklin County (16) and Durham County (13). Granville County sits in between.
Person County · Franklin County · Durham County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Granville County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.