The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-15 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Rockingham County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2025-05-15 near Harrisonburg.
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 2025-05-15, around Harrisonburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rockingham 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 41 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 19 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Rockingham County: all 19 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 19 days.
Across the whole of Virginia, see the Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Swift Run -- 4 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Massanutten (3), Harrisonburg (2), Montevideo (2) and Criders (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Swift Run | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Nne Grottoes | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NNW Harrisonburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ene Rocky Bar | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Ssw Lacey Spring | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through September: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and April, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Harrisonburg. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-15 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2022-07-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-09-28 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-25 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2017-04-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-09-02 | 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: Augusta County (27 hail days), Albemarle County (29) and Shenandoah County (19). Rockingham County sits in between.
Augusta County · Albemarle County · Shenandoah 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, Rockingham County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.