The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 days ago. Berkeley County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-08-02 near Pinopolis.
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 2026-04-29, around Cainhoy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Berkeley 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 78 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 40 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2024-06-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 11 of the 40 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Bonneau -- 7 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Goose Creek (7), Moncks Corner (7), Saint Stephen (4) and Bonneau Beach (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Hanahan, Pinopolis, Jamestown, Huger, Jedburg, Crowfield Plantatio, Eadytown and Sangaree on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Moncks Corner | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Se Moncks Corner | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NNW Goose Creek | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Goose Creek | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Bonneau Beach | 3 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through July: 35 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (22%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August, September and December, outside that window. January, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cainhoy. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-10 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-03 | 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 2.5 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: Dorchester County (27 hail days), Charleston County (28) and Georgetown County (23). Berkeley County takes more hail than any of them.
Dorchester County · Charleston County · Georgetown County
Back to the South Carolina hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Berkeley County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.