South Carolina

Storm History: Edgefield County, South Carolina

233 episodes, 345 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Edgefield County, South Carolina: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
345
Deaths
1
Injuries
31
Damage
$97 million
Episodes
233

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Open the live radar over Edgefield County

Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail12000$519,000
Thunderstorm Wind8604$623,000
Tornado77127$96 million
Flash Flood3500$180,000
Winter Storm800
Flood700$200
Ice Storm500
Heavy Snow300
Strong Wind200$10,000
High Wind100$20,000
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Edgefield County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Edgefield CountyEvery warning in Edgefield County since 1986Every county in South Carolina

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.