The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Rockbridge 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 2014-06-11 near Fairfield.
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 Natural Bridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rockbridge 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Rockbridge County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Fairfield -- 5 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Rockbridge Baths (4), Natural Bridge (3), Glasgow (3) and Vesuvius (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Lexington City on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fairfield | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Natural Bridge | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Se Glasgow | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Nw Vesuvius | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 3 Se Rockbridge Baths | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through August: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (20%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Natural Bridge. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-14 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 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 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), Augusta County (27) and Nelson County (21). Every one of them takes more hail than Rockbridge County.
Amherst County · Augusta County · Nelson 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, Rockbridge County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.