Denton County was hit as recently as 2026-06-02, 59 days ago. Denton County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-15 near Sanger.
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 2026-06-02, around The Colony. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Denton 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 86 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 5.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 403 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2024, with 11 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 36 days since 2022, against 4.2 a year before that.
19 of the 86 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-06-02. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 38 of the 86 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 Denton -- 21 of the county's 86 hail days -- then Sanger (16), Krum (15), Lewisville (14) and Little Elm (14). Beyond those, NOAA names Justin, Flower Mound, Hackberry, Ponder, Roanoke, The Colony, Aubrey, Corinth and Frisco on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lewisville | 11 | 2.50″ |
| Flower Mound | 10 | 4.00″ |
| Denton | 9 | 4.25″ |
| Little Elm | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Roanoke | 7 | 2.50″ |
The season runs February through June: 72 of the 86 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 4 |
| March | 14 |
| April | 23 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 5 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near The Colony. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-11-23 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-05 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-22 | 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 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: Collin County (74 hail days), Tarrant County (108) and Dallas County (88). Denton County sits in between.
Collin County · Tarrant County · Dallas County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Denton County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.