The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lee County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2014-07-27 near Pennington Gap.
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 2025-05-08, around Ewing. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lee 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 15 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2014-07-27. 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 2 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Pennington Gap -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Jonesville (5), Ewing (3) and Dryden (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pennington Gap | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Jonesville | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Dryden | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Rose Hill | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 ESE Ewing | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, July and August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Ewing. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-02-06 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2020-06-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-27 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2014-04-28 | 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 2.5 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: Tazewell County (19 hail days), Grayson County (18), Wythe County (20), Harlan County, Kentucky (14) and Hawkins County, Tennessee (16). Lee County sits in between.
Tazewell County · Grayson County · Wythe County · Harlan County, Kentucky · Hawkins County, Tennessee
Back to the Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lee County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.