The most recent reported hail day was 2022-06-23 -- 4 years ago, with nothing reported since. Fairfield County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-06-24 near Winnsboro.
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 2022-06-23, around Winnsboro. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fairfield 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 5 of the 20 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Fairfield County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Winnsboro -- 9 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Ridgeway (7), Blair (2) and Winnsboro Mills (2). That one town is named on 45% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Wnw Winnsboro | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 8 Ene Ridgeway | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 10 Ene Ridgeway | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 10 Nne Ridgeway | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 13 Ne Winnsboro | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Winnsboro. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-09-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-09-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-02 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Richland County (21 hail days), Kershaw County (13) and Lancaster County (20). Fairfield County sits in between.
Richland County · Kershaw County · Lancaster 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, Fairfield County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.