Amherst County was hit as recently as 2026-05-27, 65 days ago. Amherst County is hit in most years. 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 2012-06-01 near Forks of Buffalo.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Virginia. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-27, around Madison Heights. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Amherst 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 31 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2012-06-01. 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 3 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Clifford -- 6 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Madison Heights (5), Big Island (3), Forks of Buffalo (2) and New Glasgow (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Amherst and Pleasant View on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nw Clifford | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Madison Heights | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Ene Forks of Buffalo | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nw Lowesville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NNE New Glasgow | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (48%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Madison Heights. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-21 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-12 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-09-28 | 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 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: Nelson County (21 hail days), Rockbridge County (20) and Campbell County (20). Amherst County sits in between.
Nelson County · Rockbridge County · Campbell County
Back to the Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Amherst County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.