The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-01, 121 days ago. Fairfax County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2015-06-18 near Chantilly.
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 2026-04-01, around Clifton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fairfax 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 63 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 32 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2015-06-18. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 7 of the 32 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Herndon -- 6 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Centreville (4), Chantilly (3), Vienna (3) and Oakton (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Reston, Clifton, Franconia, Burke, Fairfax Station, Westover, Mount Vernon and Rose Hill on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clifton | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Nnw Centreville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ese Chantilly | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 S Herndon | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Burke | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 27 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March and April, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 5 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Clifton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-15 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-14 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-08-13 | 1.75″ | 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: Prince William County (17 hail days), Loudoun County (28) and Fauquier County (19). Fairfax County takes more hail than any of them.
Prince William County · Loudoun County · Fauquier 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, Fairfax County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.