Nash County was hit as recently as 2026-06-14, 47 days ago. Nash County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-07-01 near Bailey.
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 2026-06-14, around Dortches. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nash 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 38 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2012-07-01. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Dortches -- 4 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Middlesex (4), Bailey (3), New Hope (3) and Sharpsburg (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Spring Hope, Rocky Mount, Glenview and Nashville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nnw New Hope | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 W Dortches | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sse Glenview | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Sharpsburg | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 N Bailey | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 19 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 5 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Dortches. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-14 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-07 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-31 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-25 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 2.75 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: Wilson County (17 hail days), Edgecombe County (13) and Franklin County (16). Nash County takes more hail than any of them.
Wilson County · Edgecombe County · Franklin 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, Nash County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.