The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 days ago. Anderson County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-04-08 near Tennessee Colony.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Texas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-29, around Palestine. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Anderson 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 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 65 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 2023, with 6 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 14 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 36 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2025-03-04. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 11 of the 36 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Palestine -- 19 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Elkhart (11), Tennessee Colony (3), Frankston (3) and Neches (2). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elkhart | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 7 SW Palestine | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Palestine | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 E Tennessee Colony | 2 | 4.25″ |
| 10 NE Palestine | 2 | 3.00″ |
Anderson County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (November through May) to account for 81% of the 36 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, August, September and October, outside that window. July are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Palestine. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-04 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-12-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-11 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-24 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-03 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 4.25 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: Cherokee County (35 hail days), Houston County (23) and Freestone County (16). Anderson County takes more hail than any of them.
Cherokee County · Houston County · Freestone County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Anderson County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.