The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-01, 121 days ago. Watauga County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2011-05-26 near Blowing Rock.
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 2026-04-01, around Deep Gap. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Watauga 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 33 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 9 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Watauga County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Boone -- 7 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Blowing Rock (5), Sugar Grove (4), Beech Mountain (3) and Deep Gap (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Boone | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Blowing Rock | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nnw Boone | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Beech Mountain | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Wsw Todd | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (45%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Deep Gap. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-09-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-05-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2013-05-21 | 1.00″ | 3 |
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: Ashe County (20 hail days), Caldwell County (24) and Wilkes County (32). Watauga County sits in between.
Ashe County · Caldwell County · Wilkes 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, Watauga County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.