The most recent reported hail day was 2023-09-07 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Lexington County is hit in most years. 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 2012-07-01 near West Columbia.
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 2023-09-07, around Chapin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lexington 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 73 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.9 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 27 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2012-07-01. They land in the same month as everything else, July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 27 days.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lexington -- 7 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Red Bank (7), Pelion (5), Gilbert (4) and Chapin (4). Beyond those, NOAA names South Congaree, Gaston, Leesville, Irmo and Batesburg on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 2 Sse Red Bank | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Chapin | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Sw South Congaree | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Leesville | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (85%). July is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, 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 | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Chapin. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.75″ | 11 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2018-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-03 | 1.00″ | 4 |
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: Richland County (21 hail days), Newberry County (16) and Fairfield County (20). Lexington County takes more hail than any of them.
Richland County · Newberry County · Fairfield 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, Lexington County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.