The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-20 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Cherokee County is hit in most years. 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 2011-04-09 near Gaffney.
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 2025-05-20, around Gaffney. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cherokee 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 18 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2011-04-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 5 of the 18 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 Gaffney -- 8 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Blacksburg (7) and Chesnee (2). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gaffney | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 N Gaffney | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 2 Ene Mayo | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 ENE Chesnee | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Nne Gaffney | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 16 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (22%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Gaffney. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-20 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-25 | 1.75″ | 4 |
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, over the state line included: Spartanburg County (59 hail days), Union County (14), York County (29), Cleveland County, North Carolina (24) and Rutherford County, North Carolina (28). Cherokee County sits in between.
Spartanburg County · Union County · York County · Cleveland County, North Carolina · Rutherford County, North Carolina
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, Cherokee County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.