Childress County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Childress County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.25 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-05-07 near Loco.
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 2026-06-23, around Childress. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Childress 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 51 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 90 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2020, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
12 of the 51 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2024-05-23. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 24 of the 51 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 Childress -- 32 of the county's 51 hail days -- then Tell (9), Kirkland (8), Memphis (3) and Estelline (3). That one town is named on 63% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Loco on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Childress | 12 | 3.00″ |
| 3 S Tell | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Kirkland | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Kirkland | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Tell | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 44 of the 51 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 22 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 22 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Childress. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 2.00″ | 2 |
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 3.25 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, over the state line included: Hall County (57 hail days), Collingsworth County (47), Cottle County (35) and Harmon County, Oklahoma (33). Childress County sits in between.
Hall County · Collingsworth County · Cottle County · Harmon County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Childress County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.