The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-04 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Preston County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-08-07 near Ruthbelle.
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 2025-05-04, around Rowlesburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Preston 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. 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: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2023-08-07. They land in the same month as everything else, June.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Reedsville -- 3 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Rowlesburg (3), Tunnelton (3), Fellowsville (2) and Terra Alta (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Kingwood on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Reedsville | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Tunnelton | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 ENE Ruthbelle | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 NE Ruthbelle | 1 | 2.00″ |
| Masontown | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Rowlesburg. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-04 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-08-07 | 2.50″ | 10 |
| 2022-06-08 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-06-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-05-01 | 1.25″ | 3 |
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 2.5 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: Monongalia County (18 hail days), Pendleton County (15), Morgan County (13), Fayette County, Pennsylvania (22) and Washington County, Pennsylvania (23). Preston County sits in between.
Monongalia County · Pendleton County · Morgan County · Fayette County, Pennsylvania · Washington County, Pennsylvania
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, Preston County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.