Monongalia County was hit as recently as 2026-05-13, 79 days ago. Monongalia 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 2022-06-08 near Gum Spring.
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 2026-05-13, around Westover. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Monongalia 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 35 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2019 alone produced 4 of the 18 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 18 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2022-06-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 18 days.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Morgantown -- 9 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Core (2) and Coopers Rock (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Morgantown | 7 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ne Gum Spring | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 S Morgantown | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 ENE Cheat Lake | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Ne Hog Eye | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through September: 17 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (94%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (39%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Westover. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-13 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-09-21 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-09-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-08 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2021-06-14 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-08-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-29 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2019-05-26 | 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: Preston County (15 hail days), Pendleton County (15), Wood County (17), Fayette County, Pennsylvania (22) and Washington County, Pennsylvania (23). Monongalia County sits in between.
Preston County · Pendleton County · Wood County · Fayette County, Pennsylvania · Washington County, Pennsylvania
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Monongalia County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.