The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-01, 121 days ago. Raleigh 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 2011-03-23 near Josephine.
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 2026-04-01, around Beaver. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Raleigh 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 31 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 16 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Raleigh County: all 16 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 16 days.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Mount Hope -- 2 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Coal City (2), Ghent (2), Beckley (2) and Bradley (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Shady Spring and Sophia on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ghent | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Mount Hope | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Bradley | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Sophia | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Se Josephine | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 6 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Beaver. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-18 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-09-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-25 | 1.25″ | 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: Wyoming County (13 hail days), Mercer County (21) and Monroe County (14). Raleigh County sits in between.
Wyoming County · Mercer County · Monroe 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, Raleigh County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.