The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Franklin 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 2021-04-09 near Ferrum.
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 Rocky Mount. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Franklin 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. They carry 57 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 7 of the 32 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 2.4 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Franklin County: all 32 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 32 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ferrum -- 8 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Rocky Mount (8), Boones Mill (5), Penhook (3) and Sydnorsville (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Burnt Chimney, Endicott, Northwest Smith M and Western Smith Mou on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ferrum | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Boones Mill | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Rocky Mount | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 W Ferrum | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Ne Ferrum | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 28 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March 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 | 8 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Rocky Mount. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2018-08-13 | 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 Henry County (27). Franklin County takes more hail than any of them.
City of Roanoke · Roanoke County · Henry 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, Franklin County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.