The most recent reported hail day was 2024-08-18 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Henrico County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.4 inches and 2.4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-26 near Sandston.
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 2024-08-18, around Tuckahoe. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Henrico 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 51 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-08-18. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 6 of the 21 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Glen Allen -- 5 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Short Pump (5), Laurel (4), Dumbarton (3) and Sandston (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Tuckahoe, English Hills and Varina on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Glen Allen | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Sandston | 2 | 2.40″ |
| 1 N Laurel | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Short Pump | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nw Laurel | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 8 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Tuckahoe. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-18 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2024-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 2.40″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-01 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2022-10-17 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-31 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 5 |
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 2.4 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: Hanover County (17 hail days), Chesterfield County (24) and Louisa County (13). Henrico County sits in between.
Hanover 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, Henrico County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.