Anderson County, South Carolina Hail Map & History
Anderson County was hit as recently as 2026-09-05, 9 days ago. Anderson 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 2025-11-08 near Honea Path.
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 2026-09-05, around Belton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Anderson 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 48 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 29 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 2.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 29 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2025-11-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in November, not June. 8 of the 29 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Anderson County
Reports cluster nearest Anderson -- 12 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Belton (5), Honea Path (4), Williamston (3) and Townville (2). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Pelzer on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Honea Path | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Pelzer | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 WNW Honea Path | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Ese Townville | 1 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Anderson County
The season runs April through July: 24 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (45%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August, September and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Anderson County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Belton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-15 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
How to read the Anderson County map
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.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Pickens County (30 hail days), Greenville County (71) and Oconee County (37). Every one of them takes more hail than Anderson County.
Pickens County · Greenville County · Oconee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Anderson County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.