Louisa County was hit as recently as 2026-07-26, 5 days ago. Louisa County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-06-16 near Mineral.
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 2026-07-26, around Fredericks Hall. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Louisa 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.6 a year before that.
2 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-07-26. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 5 of the 13 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 Mineral -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Bumpass (2) and Louisa (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mineral | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Bumpass | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Fredericks Hall | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 SSW Louisa | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Gum Spring | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (92%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (62%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Fredericks Hall. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-26 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-16 | 1.75″ | 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 3 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: Orange County (15 hail days), Spotsylvania County (21) and Albemarle County (29). Every one of them takes more hail than Louisa County.
Orange County · Spotsylvania County · Albemarle County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Louisa County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.