The most recent reported hail day was 2023-09-07 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Haywood County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-07-27 near Waynesville.
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 2023-09-07, around Waynesville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Haywood 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 20 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 10 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Haywood County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Canton -- 5 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Waynesville (5) and Cruso (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Waynesville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Canton | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Ene Canton | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Nne Clyde | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 1 NNE Waynesville | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). July is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (46%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Waynesville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2014-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-08-12 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Buncombe County (29 hail days), Transylvania County (14) and Madison County (16). Every one of them takes more hail than Haywood County.
Buncombe County · Transylvania County · Madison 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, Haywood County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.