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The public record 1996 to today

Georgia hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,450 days with hail somewhere in Georgia since 1996, 939 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 19,094 reports. The largest on record is 4.25″ on 28 December 2005 in SUMTER County. 143 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Georgia wind history.

1,450

Days with hail on record, statewide

939

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.25in

Largest on record, Dec 2005

143

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Georgia

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Chamblee 163 days
  2. 02 Doraville 163 days
  3. 03 Brookhaven 154 days
  4. 04 Smyrna 153 days
  5. 05 Dunwoody 148 days
  6. 06 Sandy Springs 143 days
  7. 07 Clarkston 143 days
  8. 08 Atlanta 142 days
  9. 09 Marietta 137 days
  10. 10 Powder Springs 135 days
  11. 11 Peachtree Corners 133 days
  12. 12 Decatur 131 days
  13. 13 Tucker 127 days
  14. 14 Norcross 120 days
  15. 15 Lilburn 120 days
  16. 16 Kennesaw 118 days
  17. 17 Woodstock 117 days
  18. 18 Stone Mountain 117 days
  19. 19 Austell 114 days
  20. 20 Johns Creek 113 days
  21. 21 Roswell 112 days
  22. 22 Acworth 109 days
  23. 23 Alpharetta 108 days
  24. 24 Duluth 108 days
  25. 25 Hiram 105 days
  26. 26 Lawrenceville 104 days
  27. 27 Lovejoy 103 days
  28. 28 Milton 102 days
  29. 29 Peachtree City 102 days
  30. 30 Savannah 101 days
Every place in Georgia (143)

Hail days by year in Georgia

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2006, with 71 days of hail, 45 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Georgia

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Georgia: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
28 Dec 2005 4.25″ Ground observation SUMTER, GA
28 Dec 2005 4.25″ Ground observation SUMTER, GA
28 Dec 2005 4.25″ Ground observation Not stated
19 Apr 2006 4.25″ Ground observation TROUP, GA
20 May 2008 4.25″ Ground observation BALDWIN, GA
18 Feb 2009 4.25″ Ground observation COWETA, GA
18 Feb 2009 4.25″ Ground observation COWETA, GA
18 Feb 2009 4.25″ Ground observation Not stated

Hail days by month in Georgia

Hail here is a June matter: 294 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Georgia

The figures on this page are the record across Georgia: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Georgia by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 27 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.