The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lincoln County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-09-25 near Lincolnton.
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 2025-05-08, around Vale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lincoln 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 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2011-09-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in September, not June. 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 Vale -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Lincolnton (3), Iron Station (3), Denver (3) and High Shoals (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Station | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Denver | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Lincolnton | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 4 Se Vale | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Crouse | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). 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 and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Vale. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2018-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-21 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2017-03-01 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Catawba County (30 hail days), Gaston County (26) and Cleveland County (24). Every one of them takes more hail than Lincoln County.
Catawba County · Gaston County · Cleveland County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lincoln County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.