The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-14 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Mason 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 2016-06-21 near Mount Olive.
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 2025-04-14, around Buffalo. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Mason 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 20 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2019 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Mason County: all 15 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Buffalo -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Leon (3), Mason (2) and New Haven (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mason | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 7 SW Buffalo | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 7 Se Gallipolis | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Mount Olive | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ene Leon | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, 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 | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Buffalo. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2020-08-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 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, over the state line included: Jackson County (17 hail days), Kanawha County (22), Wood County (17), Lawrence County, Ohio (16) and Athens County, Ohio (14). Mason County sits in between.
Jackson County · Kanawha County · Wood County · Lawrence County, Ohio · Athens County, Ohio
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, Mason County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.