The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-18, 378 days ago. Henry County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-03-24 near Jones Creek.
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 2025-07-18, around Ridgeway. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Henry 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 46 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 2015, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 27 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2023-04-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 27 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Bassett -- 9 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Ridgeway (6), Spencer (4), Martinsville City (4) and Axton (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Mountain Valley and Figsboro on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Ese Bassett | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Se Bassett | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Jones Creek | 1 | 2.50″ |
| Horse Pasture | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 SW Bassett | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August 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 | 5 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ridgeway. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-06 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 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 2.5 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: Franklin County (32 hail days), Patrick County (29), Pittsylvania County (40) and Rockingham County, North Carolina (30). Every one of them takes more hail than Henry County.
Franklin County · Patrick County · Pittsylvania County · Rockingham County, North Carolina
Back to the Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Henry County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.