The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Archer County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-25 near Lakeside City.
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 2026-04-28, around Scotland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Archer 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 46 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 75 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
10 of the 46 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 15 of the 46 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 Archer City -- 12 of the county's 46 hail days -- then Windthorst (9), Lakeside City (8), Megargel (6) and Scotland (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Holliday, Lake Kickapoo and Mankins on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Archer City | 6 | 1.00″ |
| Windthorst | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Scotland | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Megargel | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Lake Kickapoo | 3 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 38 of the 46 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 22 of them (48%). 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, July and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 22 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| November | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Scotland. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-25 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 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 3 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: Wichita County (61 hail days), Clay County (44) and Baylor County (41). Archer County sits in between.
Wichita County · Clay County · Baylor County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Archer County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.