The most recent reported hail day was 2025-11-08, 265 days ago. Laurens County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-03-01 near Hickory Tavern.
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 2025-11-08, around Clinton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Laurens 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. They carry 33 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 9 of the 23 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.8 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 2017-03-01. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Laurens -- 10 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Hickory Tavern (4), Clinton (4), Gray Court (4) and Fountain Inn (3). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Cross Hill on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Laurens | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 3 Ne Hickory Tavern | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 Sw Laurens | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Hickory Tavern | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Sw Gray Court | 1 | 1.75″ |
Laurens County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 91% of the 23 days on record. May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October and November, outside that window. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Clinton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-01 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2015-09-03 | 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 2 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: Greenwood County (14 hail days), Newberry County (16) and Union County (14). Laurens County takes more hail than any of them.
Greenwood County · Newberry County · Union County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Laurens County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.