The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-14 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Nelson County is hit in most years. 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 2018-05-14 near Afton.
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 2025-04-14, around Lovingston. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nelson 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. They carry 33 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 2012, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Nelson County: all 21 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Elma -- 4 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Afton (3), Lovingston (3), Arrington (3) and Tyro (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Piedmont and Piney River on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lovingston | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Tyro | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Ne Elma | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Arrington | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 W Massies Mill | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, September and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lovingston. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-12-31 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 1.75″ | 3 |
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: Amherst County (21 hail days), Buckingham County (25) and Augusta County (27). Nelson County sits in between.
Amherst County · Buckingham County · Augusta 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, Nelson County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.