Cabarrus County Hail Risk

1/11/2022 (Permalink)

Raising Hail may be alright on occasion, but falling hail is always bad news!

Hail can be a highly destructive form of precipitation for a giant chunk of ice falling 40,000 feet from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud! Also, since it doesn’t have to happen during particularly cold weather (it’s actually more likely in the Summer!), it can happen pretty much anywhere. Very few counties have absolutely no hail risk, and just slightly more have very little hail risk. How do we know? FEMA (The Federal Emergency Management Association) collects data to produce a map of Hail Risk by county, and it can be found here: https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/hail

It can also be found at the top of this blog post in an image header format. Sorry about cropping out the Western half of the US, but if you live out there, you should probably call a SERVPRO that’s a bit closer and won’t be a 60-hour drive away.