Culberson County was hit as recently as 2026-05-26, 66 days ago. Culberson County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-09-23 near Orla.
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 2026-05-26, around Van Horn. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Culberson 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 4 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more, 25% of them, the last on 2023-06-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 5 of the 16 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
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Reports cluster nearest Van Horn -- 7 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Orla (4) and Pine Springs (3). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Van Horn | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 18 W Orla | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 35 W Pecos | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 31 W Orla | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 25 E Pine Springs | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through June: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 4 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Van Horn. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-07 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-09-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-23 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-09-23 | 2.50″ | 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 2.5 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: Reeves County (30 hail days), Loving County (14) and Jeff Davis County (23). Culberson County sits in between.
Reeves County · Loving County · Jeff Davis County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Culberson County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.