Oconee County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Oconee County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2011-05-11 near Walhalla.
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 2026-07-02, around Fair Play. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Oconee 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 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 62 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 36 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 36 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2014-06-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 36 days.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Salem -- 13 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Walhalla (10), Seneca (6), Westminster (5) and Fair Play (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Mountain Rest, Oakway and Six Mile on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Salem | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 SE Walhalla | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 SSW Salem | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 NW Salem | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Fair Play | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 29 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Fair Play. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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: Pickens County (29 hail days), Anderson County (28), Greenville County (69), Rabun County, Georgia (14) and Habersham County, Georgia (18). Oconee County sits in between.
Pickens County · Anderson County · Greenville County · Rabun County, Georgia · Habersham County, Georgia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Oconee County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.