The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-10 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Forsyth County is hit in most years. 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 2025-04-10 near Cumming.
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 2025-04-10, around Cumming. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Forsyth 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2020 alone produced 4 of the 16 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Forsyth County: all 16 hail days on record topped out below that. 4 of the 16 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 Cumming -- 8 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Drew (3), Chestatee (2), Coal Mountain (2) and Brookwood (2). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Oscarville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cumming | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Cumming | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 SSW Cumming | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Nw Cumming | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Wnw Cumming | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Cumming. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-10 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2020-08-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-22 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-23 | 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: Gwinnett County (26 hail days), Hall County (15) and Cherokee County (20). Forsyth County sits in between.
Gwinnett County · Hall County · Cherokee County
Back to the Georgia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Forsyth County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.