The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-07 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Stokes County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-09-29 near Wnw Danbury.
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 2024-05-07, around Capella. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Stokes 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. They carry 31 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Stokes County: all 21 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest King -- 4 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Danbury (4), Capella (3), Walnut Cove (3) and Francisco (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Dillard and Meadows on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 W Capella | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Danbury | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 W King | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ne Pilot Mountain | 1 | 1.75″ |
| King | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Capella. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-31 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-09-29 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2016-09-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Forsyth County (22 hail days), Surry County (36), Rockingham County (30) and Patrick County, Virginia (29). Every one of them takes more hail than Stokes County.
Forsyth County · Surry County · Rockingham County · Patrick 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, Stokes County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.