The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-04, 149 days ago. Cooke County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-25 near Valley View.
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 2026-03-04, around Collinsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cooke 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 48 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 124 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 17 days since 2022.
9 of the 48 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-09-21. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 28 of 48 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Gainesville -- 16 of the county's 48 hail days -- then Valley View (14), Lindsay (12), Muenster (12) and Callisburg (8). Beyond those, NOAA names Era, Collinsville, Myra, Rosston, Marysville, Sivells Bend and Whitesboro on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gainesville | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Valley View | 6 | 1.00″ |
| Lindsay | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Muenster | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Era | 4 | 1.75″ |
Cooke County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 81% of the 48 days on record. May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, October and November, outside that window. February, July and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Collinsville. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-21 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-22 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-17 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-11-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-02 | 1.75″ | 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 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: Montague County (49 hail days), Denton County (86), Grayson County (57) and Love County, Oklahoma (40). Cooke County sits in between.
Montague County · Denton County · Grayson County · Love County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cooke County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.