Kanawha County was hit as recently as 2026-05-20, 72 days ago. Kanawha County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-05-23 near Elkview.
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 2026-05-20, around Clendenin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kanawha 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 60 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2019 alone produced 5 of the 22 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2019-05-23. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 8 of the 22 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Charleston -- 9 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Sissonville (6), Pinch (4), Elkview (3) and Clendenin (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Cross Lanes and Big Chimney on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Elkview | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 4 N Sissonville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 NE Charleston | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Clendenin | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Clendenin. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-04-14 | 1.75″ | 10 |
| 2024-04-16 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-07 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-08 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 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 4.25 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: Jackson County (17 hail days), Mason County (15) and Raleigh County (16). Kanawha County takes more hail than any of them.
Jackson County · Mason County · Raleigh County
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, Kanawha County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.