The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-10, 143 days ago. Bandera County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-01-15 near Medina.
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 2026-03-10, around Vanderpool. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bandera 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 58 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 11 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
6 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-03-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 12 of the 25 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 Medina -- 10 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Bandera (8), Vanderpool (5), Lakehills (3) and Pipe Creek (3). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Lost Maples State Natur, Camp Verde, Lake Medina Shore and Lake Medina Shores on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Medina | 4 | 4.00″ |
| 1 S Medina | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Bandera | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 3 NNW Medina | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Lost Maples State Natur | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 21 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (40%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in January, June and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Vanderpool. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-07 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-28 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2023-03-01 | 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 4 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: Kerr County (41 hail days), Medina County (25) and Kendall County (23). Bandera County sits in between.
Kerr County · Medina County · Kendall County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bandera County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.