The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Buckingham County is hit in most years. 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 2013-06-13 near Buckingham.
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 2025-05-16, around Sheppards. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Buckingham 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Buckingham County: all 25 hail days on record topped out below that. 7 of the 25 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Buckingham -- 5 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Dillwyn (5), Toga (5), Gold Hill (3) and New Canton (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Wsw Toga | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Wnw Buckingham | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Buckingham | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Toga | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Nne Gold Hill | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 20 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (44%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February, March, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Sheppards. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-05-10 | 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: Nelson County (21 hail days), Albemarle County (29) and Amherst County (21). Buckingham County sits in between.
Nelson County · Albemarle County · Amherst 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, Buckingham County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.