The most recent reported hail day was 2022-08-09 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. City of Roanoke is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2019-08-02 near Cave Spring.
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 2022-08-09, around Vinton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls City of Roanoke 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 25 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 14 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2019-08-02. They land in the same month as everything else, August. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Roanoke -- 11 of the city's 14 hail days -- then Cave Spring (2) and Vinton (2). That one town is named on 79% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nnw Roanoke | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Nne Cave Spring | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 Ne Cave Spring | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ssw Roanoke | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sw Roanoke | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). August is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (36%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Vinton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-13 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-08-02 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-01 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2017-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-09-04 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2012-08-01 | 1.75″ | 4 |
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: Roanoke County (22 hail days), Franklin County (32) and Botetourt County (15). Every one of them takes more hail than City of Roanoke.
Roanoke County · Franklin County · Botetourt 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, City of Roanoke, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.