The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-23 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Georgetown County is hit in most years. 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 Sampit.
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 2025-04-23, around Sampit. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Georgetown 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 42 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 23 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 23 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2011-05-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 6 of the 23 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 Sampit -- 5 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Andrews (5), Murrells Inlet (5), Plantersville (4) and Georgetown (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Yauhannah and Pawley'S Island on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Andrews | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Murrells Inlet | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wsw Sampit | 1 | 4.50″ |
| 1 S Andrews | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wsw Murrells Inlet | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 20 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (39%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, October 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 | 4 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Sampit. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-20 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-20 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-03-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-31 | 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: Horry County (43 hail days), Berkeley County (40) and Florence County (18). Georgetown County sits in between.
Horry County · Berkeley County · Florence 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, Georgetown County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.