Jefferson County was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Jefferson County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2014-05-07 near Addington.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Oklahoma. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-08, around Waurika. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jefferson 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 31 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 55 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.1 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 8 of the 31 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2019-05-01. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 15 of the 31 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Oklahoma, see the Oklahoma hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Waurika -- 11 of the county's 31 hail days -- then Ryan (9), Ringling (6), Addington (5) and Terral (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Hastings and Cornish on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Waurika | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Addington | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Hastings | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nw Waurika | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 25 of the 31 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (42%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February, June and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Waurika. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-20 | 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, over the state line included: Stephens County (66 hail days), Cotton County (30), Carter County (57), Clay County, Texas (44) and Montague County, Texas (49). Jefferson County sits in between.
Stephens County · Cotton County · Carter County · Clay County, Texas · Montague County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jefferson County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.