The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-06 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Columbia 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 2022-03-16 near Martinez.
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 2024-05-06, around Evans. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Columbia 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. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 14 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Columbia County: all 14 hail days on record topped out below that. 4 of the 14 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 Grovetown -- 8 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Evans (4), Martinez (4), Harlem (2) and Parksville (2). That one town is named on 57% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Grovetown | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Evans | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nw Grovetown | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Martinez | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 Nne Martinez | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Evans. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2018-06-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-25 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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, over the state line included: Bulloch County (26 hail days), Laurens County (16), Effingham County (21), Aiken County, South Carolina (30) and Greenwood County, South Carolina (14). Columbia County sits in between.
Bulloch County · Laurens County · Effingham County · Aiken County, South Carolina · Greenwood County, South Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Columbia County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.