The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Florence County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-10 near Pamplico.
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 2025-06-08, around Olanta. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Florence 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 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 18 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
2 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2021-05-03. They land in the same month as everything else, 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 Florence -- 6 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Pamplico (3), Scranton (3), Timmonsville (2) and Lake City (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Olanta on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lake City | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 8 S Pamplico | 1 | 4.50″ |
| 3 E Evergreen | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 6 Sw Timmonsville | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 W Scranton | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and November, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 5 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Olanta. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2021-05-03 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-21 | 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 4.5 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: Sumter County (17 hail days), Horry County (43) and Georgetown County (23). Florence County sits in between.
Sumter County · Horry 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, Florence County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.