The most recent reported hail day was 2023-01-12 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Rabun 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 2011-04-27 near Clayton.
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 2023-01-12, around Tiger. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rabun 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. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 14 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Rabun County: all 14 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Clayton -- 6 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Lakemont (3), Mountain City (2) and Tallulah Falls (2). That one town is named on 43% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clayton | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Tallulah Falls | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 Nw Clayton | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nne Tiger | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 3 E Clayton | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through June: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (36%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January and March, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 5 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Tiger. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-12 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-25 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2018-03-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-05-20 | 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 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: Habersham County (18 hail days), White County (14), Union County (13), Macon County, North Carolina (14) and Oconee County, South Carolina (36). Rabun County sits in between.
Habersham County · White County · Union County · Macon County, North Carolina · Oconee County, South Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rabun County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.