Bell County was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Bell County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5.5 inches and 5.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-04-12 near Salado.
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 2026-05-10, around Rogers. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bell 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 47 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 126 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2024, with 7 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 22 days since 2022, against 2.1 a year before that.
7 of the 47 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-05-12. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 17 of the 47 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 Temple -- 15 of the county's 47 hail days -- then Killeen (14), Belton (10), Troy (8) and Salado (7). Beyond those, NOAA names Fort Hood, Rogers, Harker Heights, Holland, Morgan'S Point Resort, Nolanville and Little River-Acade on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Killeen | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Temple | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Belton | 6 | 2.75″ |
| Harker Heights | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Holland | 4 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 40 of the 47 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 19 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, September, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 19 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Rogers. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-30 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.75″ | 3 |
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 5.5 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: Coryell County (40 hail days), Falls County (17) and Williamson County (49). Bell County sits in between.
Coryell County · Falls County · Williamson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bell County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.