The most recent reported hail day was 2020-07-25 -- 6 years ago, with nothing reported since. Union County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2011-05-26 near Blairsville.
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 2020-07-25, around Jones Creek. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Union 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 25 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 10 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2020 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 0 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
2 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2018-03-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Georgia, see the Georgia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Blairsville -- 5 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Ivy Log (3), Vogel State Park (3) and Nottely Dam (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nw Blairsville | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Blairsville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Nnw Blairsville | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 Se Ivy Log | 1 | 2.12″ |
| Ivy Log | 1 | 2.12″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 3 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Jones Creek. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-21 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2020-07-09 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-17 | 2.12″ | 3 |
| 2017-03-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2014-10-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2014-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-06-13 | 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: White County (14 hail days), Habersham County (18) and Rabun County (14). Every one of them takes more hail than Union County.
White County · Habersham County · Rabun County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Union County, Georgia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.