Hanover County was hit as recently as 2026-07-21, 10 days ago. Hanover County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.25 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-07-21 near Doswell.
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 2026-07-21, around Doswell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hanover 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 25 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-07-21. 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 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Mechanicsville -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Ashland (2), Montpelier (2), Rockville (2) and Westwood (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanicsville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Montpelier | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Doswell | 1 | 2.25″ |
| 2 Ne Elmont | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 6 Ene Highland Springs | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2.25 inches near Doswell. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-21 | 2.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-01 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-07-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-02-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 2.25 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: Henrico County (21 hail days), Chesterfield County (24) and Louisa County (13). Hanover County sits in between.
Henrico County · Chesterfield County · Louisa 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, Hanover County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.