The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-29 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Orangeburg 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 2011-05-27 near North.
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 2025-05-29, around Cameron. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Orangeburg 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 38 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 26 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 26 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2011-05-27. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 8 of the 26 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 Branchville -- 4 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Rowesville (4), Eutawville (3), Bowman (3) and Holly Hill (3). Beyond those, NOAA names North, Neeses, Orangeburg, Santee, Springfield, Cameron and Elloree on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 ENE Eutawville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| North | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 S Orangeburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nw Eutawville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 N Branchville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 22 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, 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 | 4 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cameron. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-31 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2022-03-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-09-09 | 1.25″ | 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: Colleton County (17 hail days), Dorchester County (27) and Sumter County (17). Orangeburg County sits in between.
Colleton County · Dorchester County · Sumter 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, Orangeburg County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.