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The public record 1996 to today

New Mexico hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,177 days with hail somewhere in New Mexico since 1996, 840 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 11,671 reports. The largest on record is 4.50″ on 30 September 1998 in VALENCIA County. 35 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: New Mexico wind history.

1,177

Days with hail on record, statewide

840

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.50in

Largest on record, Sep 1998

35

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in New Mexico

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Clovis 85 days
  2. 02 Hobbs 76 days
  3. 03 Carlsbad 76 days
  4. 04 Portales 64 days
  5. 05 Los Ranchos de Albuquerque 59 days
  6. 06 Raton 58 days
  7. 07 Albuquerque 53 days
  8. 08 Roswell 50 days
  9. 09 Las Vegas 48 days
  10. 10 Corrales 47 days
  11. 11 Tucumcari 47 days
  12. 12 Edgewood 43 days
  13. 13 Artesia 42 days
  14. 14 Lovington 37 days
  15. 15 Sunland Park 36 days
  16. 16 Silver City 33 days
  17. 17 Bernalillo 33 days
  18. 18 Santa Fe 31 days
  19. 19 Las Cruces 29 days
  20. 20 Rio Rancho 28 days
  21. 21 Ruidoso 24 days
  22. 22 Alamogordo 19 days
  23. 23 Socorro 18 days
  24. 24 Los Lunas 17 days
  25. 25 Anthony 16 days
  26. 26 Española 15 days
  27. 27 Belen 14 days
  28. 28 Farmington 11 days
  29. 29 Grants 8 days
  30. 30 Bloomfield 8 days
Every place in New Mexico (35)

Hail days by year in New Mexico

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2015, with 62 days of hail, 46 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in New Mexico

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in New Mexico: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
30 Sep 1998 4.50″ Ground observation VALENCIA, NM
06 Jun 2005 4.50″ Ground observation LEA, NM
06 Jun 2005 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
12 Jun 2012 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
12 Jun 2012 4.50″ Ground observation CURRY, NM
12 Jun 2012 4.50″ Ground observation CURRY, NM
12 Jun 2012 4.50″ Ground observation ROOSEVELT, NM
12 Jun 2012 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated

Hail days by month in New Mexico

Hail here is a June matter: 295 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

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The figures on this page are the record across New Mexico: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under New Mexico by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 27 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.