The most recent reported hail day was 2023-04-26 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Bryan County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2022-04-05 near Ellabell.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Georgia. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2023-04-26, around Richmond Hill. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bryan 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 16 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 3 of the 14 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-04-26. They land in the same month as everything else, April.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Richmond Hill -- 9 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Keller (2). That one town is named on 64% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Richmond Hill | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 3 N Ellabell | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 Sse Richmond Hill | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Se Richmond Hill | 1 | 1.50″ |
| Pembroke | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through August: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February and March, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Richmond Hill. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-26 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-05 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-02-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-08-07 | 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 2.75 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: Liberty County (16 hail days), Chatham County (18) and Effingham County (21). Every one of them takes more hail than Bryan County.
Liberty County · Chatham County · Effingham County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bryan County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.