The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Pittsylvania County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2011-04-27 near Dry Fork.
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 Gretna. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pittsylvania 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 73 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 40 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 40 days on record passed it, 2%, the last on 2011-04-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 10 of the 40 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 Chatham -- 8 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Gretna (7), Blairs (5), Callands (4) and Ringgold (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Hurt, Keeling, Climax, Cascade, Westover Hills, Dry Fork, Danville Airport, Eden and Swansonville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chatham | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Dry Fork | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 Nnw Chatham | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Nnw Ringgold | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 N Keeling | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 35 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March 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 | 3 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Gretna. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-07-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.75″ | 5 |
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, over the state line included: Halifax County (26 hail days), Henry County (27), Franklin County (32) and Caswell County, North Carolina (18). Pittsylvania County takes more hail than any of them.
Halifax County · Henry County · Franklin County · Caswell County, North Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pittsylvania County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.