The most recent reported hail day was 2022-07-12 -- 4 years ago, with nothing reported since. Botetourt County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-08-26 near Buchanan.
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 2022-07-12, around Buchanan. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Botetourt 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 18 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 2019, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Botetourt County: all 15 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Troutville -- 3 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Buchanan (2), Eagle Rock (2), Lithia (2) and Oriskany (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Wsw Buchanan | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nw Daleville | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 1 Nne Buchanan | 1 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Ssw Lithia | 1 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Nace | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). 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 | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Buchanan. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-07-10 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: City of Roanoke (14 hail days), Roanoke County (22) and Bedford County (37). Botetourt County sits in between.
City of Roanoke · Roanoke County · Bedford 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, Botetourt County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.