The most recent reported hail day was 2023-09-07 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Richland County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2014-05-23 near Dentsville.
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 Ballentine. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Richland 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 40 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 21 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2014-05-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of South Carolina, see the South Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Columbia -- 7 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Dentsville (5), Blythewood (3), Saint Andrews (3) and Woodfields (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Forest Acres on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Blythewood | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nne Dentsville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Se Forest Acres | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 8 Nne Dentsville | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (19%). 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 | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ballentine. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-17 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2015-06-23 | 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 2.75 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: Lexington County (27 hail days), Fairfield County (20) and Kershaw County (13). Richland County sits in between.
Lexington County · Fairfield County · Kershaw 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, Richland County, South Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.