Prince William County was hit as recently as 2026-06-12, 49 days ago. Prince William County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.25 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-05-02 near Occoquan.
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 2026-06-12, around Woolsey. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Prince William 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 32 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2016-06-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Haymarket -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Manassas (3), Manassas Park (3), Independent Hill (2) and Dale City (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Dumfries, Gainesville and Triangle on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 NW Manassas Park | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Nne Independent Hill | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Haymarket | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Dumfries | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Se Occoquan | 1 | 2.25″ |
The season runs April through July: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (41%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Woolsey. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-26 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-18 | 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 2.25 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: Fairfax County (32 hail days), Stafford County (18) and Fauquier County (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Prince William County.
Fairfax County · Stafford County · Fauquier 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, Prince William County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.