The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Patrick County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-03-24 near Groundhog Mountain.
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 Ararat. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Patrick 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 42 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 29 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 29 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2012-03-24. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 29 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ararat -- 8 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Stuart (8), Meadows of Dan (4), Critz (3) and Sanville (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Woolwine, Buffalo Ridge and Fairy Stone State on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Wnw Ararat | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 12 Ne Stuart | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 E Stuart | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Groundhog Mountain | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 E Ararat | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 25 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ararat. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-29 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-18 | 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 2.75 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: Floyd County (15 hail days), Henry County (27), Carroll County (28) and Stokes County, North Carolina (21). Patrick County takes more hail than any of them.
Floyd County · Henry County · Carroll County · Stokes County, North Carolina
Back to the Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Patrick County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.