The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-10 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Macon 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 2012-03-02 near Franklin.
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 2025-04-10, around Otto. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Macon 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 25 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: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 14 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2012-03-02. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Franklin -- 6 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Highlands (4), Nantahala Lake (2) and Otto (2). That one town is named on 43% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nnw Franklin | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 7 E Franklin | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Ese Franklin | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 N Franklin | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 ESE Otto | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 13 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Otto. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-19 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-05-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2012-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-04-26 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2012-03-02 | 2.00″ | 5 |
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, over the state line included: Transylvania County (14 hail days), Haywood County (13), Henderson County (27), Rabun County, Georgia (14) and Oconee County, South Carolina (36). Macon County sits in between.
Transylvania County · Haywood County · Henderson County · Rabun County, Georgia · Oconee County, South Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Macon County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.