Frederick County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Frederick County is hit in most years. 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 2014-07-03 near Armel.
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 2026-05-18, around Wilde Acres. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Frederick 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 41 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 5 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2014-07-03. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cedar Grove -- 4 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Stephens City (4), Hayfield (3), Cedar Hill (3) and Albin (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Armel, Winchester, Cross Junction, Gore and High View Manor on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sse Stephens City | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Cross Junction | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 Nnw Armel | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nw Hayfield | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wsw Armel | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (40%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Wilde Acres. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-14 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2020-08-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-03 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2018-05-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-09-02 | 1.25″ | 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, over the state line included: Shenandoah County (19 hail days), Fauquier County (19), Loudoun County (28), Jefferson County, West Virginia (17) and Berkeley County, West Virginia (23). Frederick County sits in between.
Shenandoah County · Fauquier County · Loudoun County · Jefferson County, West Virginia · Berkeley County, West Virginia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Frederick County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.