The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-26 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Chatham 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 2011-03-27 near Wilmington Island.
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 2025-05-26, around Monteith. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chatham 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 54 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail 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 2011-03-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. 5 of the 18 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Burroughs -- 3 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Garden City (3), Port Wentworth (3), Savannah Airport (2) and Thunderbolt (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Tybee Island, Bloomingdale, Monteith and Savannah on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Port Wentworth | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Thunderbolt | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Tybee Island | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Savannah | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Garden City | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Monteith. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-02-15 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2018-08-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.75″ | 4 |
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: Bryan County (14 hail days), Effingham County (21) and Liberty County (16). Chatham County sits in between.
Bryan County · Effingham County · Liberty County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chatham County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.