Bedford County was hit as recently as 2026-06-11, 50 days ago. Bedford County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2016-06-23 near Bedford.
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 2026-06-11, around Stewartsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bedford 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 37 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 64 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 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: 7 days since 2022, against 2.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 37 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2016-06-23. 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 6 of the 37 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Stewartsville -- 10 of the county's 37 hail days -- then Forest (5), Boonsboro (4), Bedford City (4) and Bedford (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Moneta, Thaxton, Big Island, Huddleston, Montvale and Sedalia on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 W Bedford City | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 ENE Stewartsville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 W Bedford | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 W Bedford City | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 30 of the 37 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Stewartsville. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-01 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2025-07-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-02 | 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: Botetourt County (15 hail days), City of Roanoke (14) and Campbell County (20). Bedford County takes more hail than any of them.
Botetourt County · City of Roanoke · Campbell County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bedford County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.