The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-03 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Berkeley 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 2012-05-03 near Arden.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in West Virginia. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-03, around Martinsburg Arpt. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Berkeley 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 55 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Berkeley County: all 23 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Martinsburg -- 5 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Falling Waters (5), Arden (4), Hedgesville (4) and Inwood (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Johnsontown, Jones Springs, Shanghai, Martinsburg Arpt, Berkeley, Gerrardstown, Glengary and Winebrenners Cros on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Falling Waters | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 2 E Martinsburg | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Inwood | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 S Johnsontown | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nnw Johnsontown | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 20 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (35%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Martinsburg Arpt. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-03 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-07 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2023-08-07 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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, over the state line included: Jefferson County (17 hail days), Morgan County (13), Preston County (15), Frederick County, Virginia (20) and Loudoun County, Virginia (28). Berkeley County sits in between.
Jefferson County · Morgan County · Preston County · Frederick County, Virginia · Loudoun County, Virginia
Back to the West Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Berkeley County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.