The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-26 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Effingham 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 2011-03-27 near Rincon.
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 Meinhard. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Effingham 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2022-04-05. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 7 of the 21 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 Rincon -- 4 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Pineora (4), Shawnee (4), Guyton (3) and Stillwell (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Clyo, Marlow, Eden, Meldrim and Springfield on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pineora | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Rincon | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Clyo | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Guyton | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 N Rincon | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 19 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (90%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). 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 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Meinhard. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-05 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-06-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-21 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-19 | 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: Chatham County (18 hail days), Bryan County (14) and Bulloch County (26). Effingham County sits in between.
Chatham County · Bryan County · Bulloch County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Effingham County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.