The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-01, 121 days ago. Wood County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-04-09 near Boaz.
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 Williamstown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wood 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 37 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2019-05-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 6 of the 17 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 Parkersburg -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Mineral Wells (4), Mineralwells (2), Washington (2) and Williamstown (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Rockport on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Parkersburg | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Boaz | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Davisville | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 SE Mineral Wells | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nw Mineralwells | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January and August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Williamstown. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2025-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-26 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2019-05-17 | 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 2.75 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: Jackson County (17 hail days), Mason County (15), Kanawha County (22), Washington County, Ohio (22) and Athens County, Ohio (14). Wood County sits in between.
Jackson County · Mason County · Kanawha County · Washington 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, Wood County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.