The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-23 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Shenandoah County is hit in most years. 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 2012-09-27 near Edinburg.
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 2024-05-23, around Strasburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shenandoah 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. They carry 28 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: 2014 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.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 19 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2012-09-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in September, not May. 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 Clary -- 3 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Strasburg (3), Edinburg (2), Harmony (2) and Toms Brook (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Woodstock, Alonzaville, Basye, Kings Crossing and Mount Jackson on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Strasburg | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 1 S Clary | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Edinburg | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 W Toms Brook | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Sw Harmony | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through September: 17 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (37%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Strasburg. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-09-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-01 | 1.25″ | 3 |
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: Frederick County (20 hail days), Rockingham County (19) and Fauquier County (19). Shenandoah County sits in between.
Frederick County · Rockingham County · Fauquier County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shenandoah County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.