Laurens County was hit as recently as 2026-05-17, 75 days ago. Laurens 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 2015-04-25 near Harlow.
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 2026-05-17, around Dudley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Laurens 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. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 3 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 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2015-04-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 16 days.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Dexter -- 3 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Dublin (3), Cedar Grove (2) and East Dublin (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Dexter | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Ene Harlow | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 6 Ne Dexter | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 SE Rentz | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, July and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Dudley. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-02-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-25 | 2.75″ | 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 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: Bulloch County (26 hail days), Columbia County (14) and Effingham County (21). Laurens County sits in between.
Bulloch County · Columbia County · Effingham County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Laurens County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.