The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 days ago. Cherokee County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2019-04-06 near Alto.
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 Troup. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cherokee 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 35 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 56 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2017 alone produced 7 of the 35 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 35 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2025-03-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 10 of the 35 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 Jacksonville -- 11 of the county's 35 hail days -- then Rusk (7), Alto (5), Gallatin (5) and Bullard (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Troup, New Summerfield and Wells on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rusk | 6 | 1.00″ |
| Troup | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 WSW Jacksonville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Jacksonville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 WSW Gallatin | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 28 of the 35 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, October and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Troup. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-15 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1.25″ | 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: Rusk County (33 hail days), Anderson County (36) and Smith County (53). Cherokee County sits in between.
Rusk County · Anderson County · Smith County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cherokee County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.