The most recent reported hail day was 2024-08-18 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lancaster County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-05-23 near Fort Mill.
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 2024-08-18, around Lancaster. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lancaster 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. Those days carry 44 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-04-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 6 of the 20 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 Lancaster -- 7 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Elgin (6), Irwin (3), Kershaw (3) and Heath Springs (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Pageland on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lancaster | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 N Lancaster | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 E Fort Mill | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 9 Nnw Lancaster | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 3 NE Lancaster | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lancaster. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-10 | 1.50″ | 5 |
| 2024-04-20 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-03 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-09-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-24 | 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 2.75 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: York County (29 hail days), Fairfield County (20), Kershaw County (13) and Union County, North Carolina (19). Lancaster County sits in between.
York County · Fairfield County · Kershaw County · Union County, North Carolina
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, Lancaster County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.