The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-05 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Bastrop County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-03-18 near Smithville.
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 2025-05-05, around Paige. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bastrop 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 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 2019, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2024-04-09. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 11 of the 29 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 Smithville -- 9 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Elgin (9), Bastrop (6), Paige (5) and Camp Swift (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Rosanky on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elgin | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Paige | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Ssw Smithville | 2 | 5.00″ |
| 2 W Bastrop | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Smithville | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 24 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, June, October and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Paige. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-05 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-12-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-09 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2024-02-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 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 5 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: Lee County (15 hail days), Fayette County (18) and Travis County (41). Bastrop County sits in between.
Lee County · Fayette County · Travis County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bastrop County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.