Horry County was hit as recently as 2026-05-11, 81 days ago. Horry County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 Conway.
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 2026-05-11, around Green Sea. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Horry 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 43 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 140 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 10 of the 43 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 7 days since 2022, against 3.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 43 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2022-04-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 14 of the 43 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 Conway -- 16 of the county's 43 hail days -- then Loris (8), Myrtle Beach (8), Socastee (8) and Forestbrook (7). Beyond those, NOAA names Garden City, Red Hill, Longs, Green Sea, Aynor, Bayboro, Nichols, Bucksport and Surfside Beach on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Conway | 6 | 4.50″ |
| Socastee | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nnw Garden City | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Myrtle Beach | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Conway | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 35 of the 43 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Green Sea. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-20 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-08-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-07 | 2.75″ | 12 |
| 2021-05-03 | 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, over the state line included: Georgetown County (23 hail days), Florence County (18), Berkeley County (40), Columbus County, North Carolina (26) and Brunswick County, North Carolina (20). Horry County takes more hail than any of them.
Georgetown County · Florence County · Berkeley County · Columbus County, North Carolina · Brunswick County, North Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Horry County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.