The most recent reported hail day was 2023-08-15 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Person County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2016-06-23 near Cluster Springs.
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 2023-08-15, around Surl. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Person 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. Those days carry 33 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2016 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2016-06-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 5 of the 17 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Roxboro -- 7 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Bethel Hill (6), Surl (5), Concord (3) and Bushy Fork (2). That one town is named on 41% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Roxboro | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Wsw Bethel Hill | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Bethel Hill | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Surl | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 S Cluster Springs | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Surl. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-09-28 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2016-06-23 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2016-06-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-03-14 | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Granville County (17 hail days), Caswell County (18), Durham County (13) and Halifax County, Virginia (26). Person County sits in between.
Granville County · Caswell County · Durham County · Halifax County, Virginia
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, Person County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.