The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Montgomery County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-08-14 near Christiansburg.
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 2025-05-16, around Walton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Montgomery 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 40 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 18 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Montgomery County: all 18 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 18 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Christiansburg -- 8 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Blacksburg (6), Radford (2) and Shawsville (2). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Blacksburg | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Christiansburg | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 Ssw Christiansburg | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 S Christiansburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sse Christiansburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 16 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Walton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-12 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2016-09-28 | 1.00″ | 6 |
| 2015-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-05-22 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Pulaski County (22 hail days), Floyd County (15) and Roanoke County (22). Montgomery County sits in between.
Pulaski County · Floyd County · Roanoke County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Montgomery County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.