The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-09, 387 days ago. Aiken County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-09-27 near Aiken.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in South Carolina. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-07-09, around Aiken. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Aiken 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 42 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2015, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 30 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2011-09-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in September, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 30 days.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Aiken -- 10 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Monetta (5), New Ellenton (4), Ridge Spring (3) and Gloverville (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Belvedere, Burnettown, North Augusta, Jackson and Windsor on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| New Ellenton | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 1 N Burnettown | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 8 Se Monetta | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Belvedere | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Ne Aiken | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 24 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Aiken. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-30 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-30 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-03 | 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 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, over the state line included: Lexington County (27 hail days), Newberry County (16), Greenwood County (14) and Columbia County, Georgia (14). Aiken County takes more hail than any of them.
Lexington County · Newberry County · Greenwood County · Columbia County, Georgia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Aiken County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.