The most recent reported hail day was 2024-09-24 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Tazewell County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2012-06-30 near S Tazewell.
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 2024-09-24, around Tazewell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Tazewell 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 40 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 7 of the 19 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.4 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 2012-06-30. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 5 of the 19 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 Richlands -- 6 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Tazewell (5), Burkes Garden (3), Bluefield (3) and Claypool Hill (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Cedar Bluff and Tiptop on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Richlands | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nnw Tazewell | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 3 NW Tazewell | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Cedar Bluff | 2 | 1.00″ |
| S Tazewell | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 17 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Tazewell. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2016-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-07-18 | 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 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: Wythe County (20 hail days), Grayson County (18), Pulaski County (22), McDowell County, West Virginia (13) and Mercer County, West Virginia (21). Tazewell County sits in between.
Wythe County · Grayson County · Pulaski County · McDowell County, West Virginia · Mercer County, West Virginia
Back to the Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Tazewell County, Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.