The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-09, 387 days ago. Wilkes 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 2023-06-26 near Buck Shoals.
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 2025-07-09, around Halls Mills. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wilkes 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 50 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 2012, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 32 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2023-06-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 32 days.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest North Wilkesboro -- 6 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Ronda (4), Millers Creek (3), Clingman (3) and Buck Shoals (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Boomer, Traphill, Windy Gap, Abshers, Elkville, Glendale Springs, Hays and Maple Springs on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| North Wilkesboro | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Wsw North Wilkesboro | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Millers Creek | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 4 WSW Buck Shoals | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 Se Boomer | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 26 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (34%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Halls Mills. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2023-06-26 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-05 | 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: Yadkin County (17 hail days), Ashe County (20) and Caldwell County (24). Wilkes County takes more hail than any of them.
Yadkin County · Ashe County · Caldwell County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wilkes County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.