Wilson County, North Carolina Hail Map & History
The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-10 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Wilson County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-05-03 near Lucama.
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 2024-05-10, around Saratoga. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wilson 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 25 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2016-05-03. They land in the same month as everything else, 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.
Hardest-hit places in Wilson County
Reports cluster nearest Wilson -- 7 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Lucama (4), Saratoga (3), Stantonsburg (2) and Elm City (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Sims on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 W Lucama | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nw Stantonsburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 W Lucama | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wsw Wilson | 1 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Wilson County
The season runs March through June: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 2 |
Recent Wilson County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Saratoga. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-10 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Wilson County map
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 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Nash County (21 hail days), Edgecombe County (14) and Wayne County (15). Wilson County sits in between.
Nash County · Edgecombe County · Wayne County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wilson County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.