The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-26, 400 days ago. Pickens County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-15 near Six Mile.
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 2025-06-26, around Pickens. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pickens 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 59 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Pickens County: all 29 hail days on record topped out below that. 8 of the 29 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 Liberty -- 10 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Pickens (10), Easley (6), Six Mile (6) and Pumpkintown (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Nine Times on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Easley | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Liberty | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Pickens | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 2 N Pickens | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NW Six Mile | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 26 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). June is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (31%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Pickens. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-06-14 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-04 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Oconee County (36 hail days), Greenville County (69), Anderson County (28) and Transylvania County, North Carolina (14). Pickens County sits in between.
Oconee County · Greenville County · Anderson County · Transylvania County, North Carolina
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pickens County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.