Surry County was hit as recently as 2026-07-04, 27 days ago. Surry County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2024-05-07 near Fairview.
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 2026-07-04, around Toast. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Surry 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 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 58 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 36 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 7 days since 2022, against 2.4 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Surry County: all 36 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 36 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Dobson -- 8 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Bottom (5), Mount Airy (5), Elkin (4) and Mountain Park (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Ararat, Fairview, Pilot Mountain, Toast, Low Gap and Woodville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ararat | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Wsw Pilot Mountain | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Mount Airy | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Pilot Mountain | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nw Mount Herman | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 30 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Toast. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-06 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 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: Yadkin County (17 hail days), Stokes County (21), Wilkes County (32), Carroll County, Virginia (28) and Patrick County, Virginia (29). Surry County takes more hail than any of them.
Yadkin County · Stokes County · Wilkes County · Carroll County, Virginia · 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, Surry County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.