Deaf Smith County was hit as recently as 2026-07-04, 27 days ago. Deaf Smith County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.23 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-06-15 near Hereford.
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 2026-07-04, around Hereford. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Deaf Smith 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 64 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 142 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 2019, with 12 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 16 days since 2022.
12 of the 64 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-23. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 28 of the 64 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 Hereford -- 32 of the county's 64 hail days -- then Dawn (16), Bootleg (12), Simms (10) and Wildorado (8). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Vega on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dawn | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Hereford | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Bootleg | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 10 S Vega | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Hereford | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 52 of the 64 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 24 of them (38%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 16 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Hereford. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-23 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-04 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-25 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-28 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-15 | 1.00″ | 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 3.23 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: Oldham County (44 hail days), Castro County (29) and Parmer County (30). Deaf Smith County takes more hail than any of them.
Oldham County · Castro County · Parmer County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Deaf Smith County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.