The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-25 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Mecklenburg County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2011-05-10 near Charlotte.
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 2025-06-25, around Weddington. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Mecklenburg 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 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 64 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 34 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.3 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 34 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2011-05-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 34 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Charlotte -- 15 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Huntersville (7), Matthews (5), Harrisburg (4) and Mint Hill (4). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Paw Creek, Croft, Pineville and Davidson on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | 5 | 1.00″ |
| Huntersville | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nnw Matthews | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sw Charlotte | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Matthews | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 30 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Weddington. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-25 | 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 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: Cabarrus County (21 hail days), Gaston County (26) and Union County (19). Mecklenburg County takes more hail than any of them.
Cabarrus County · Gaston County · Union 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, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.