The most recent reported hail day was 2024-04-15 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Orange County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-09-05 near Rhoadesville.
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 2024-04-15, around Gordonsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Orange 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 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 15 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2012-09-05. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in September, not June. 4 of the 15 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 Orange -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Nasons (2), Gordonsville (2), Locust Grove (2) and Thornhill (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Verdiersville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Orange | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 Nnw Rhoadesville | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Ne Eheart | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Sw Nasons | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Flat Run | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Gordonsville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-30 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2016-07-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2012-09-06 | 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 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: Culpeper County (18 hail days), Louisa County (13) and Spotsylvania County (21). Orange County sits in between.
Culpeper County · Louisa County · Spotsylvania County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Orange County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.