Greenville County, South Carolina Hail Map & History
Greenville County was hit as recently as 2026-09-06, 8 days ago. Greenville County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-10 near Tigerville.
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 2026-09-06, around Fork Shoals. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Greenville 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 71 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 207 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 9 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 13 days since 2022, against 4.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 6 of the 71 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2023-05-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. 18 of the 71 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Greenville County
Reports cluster nearest Simpsonville -- 17 of the county's 71 hail days -- then Greer (16), Taylors (15), Greenville (12) and Mauldin (12). Beyond those, NOAA names Tigerville, Travelers Rest, Gowensville, Fountain Inn, Caesars Head, Piedmont, Berea, Fork Shoals and Cleveland on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Simpsonville | 7 | 1.25″ |
| Greer | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Taylors | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Travelers Rest | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ne Mauldin | 3 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Greenville County
The season runs March through July: 60 of the 71 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 7 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 18 |
| June | 17 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Greenville County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Fork Shoals. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-10-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
How to read the Greenville County map
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 3 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Spartanburg County (59 hail days), Pickens County (30) and Anderson County (29). Greenville County takes more hail than any of them.
Spartanburg County · Pickens County · Anderson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Greenville County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.