The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-05, 148 days ago. Ector County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-06-14 near Mission Dorado.
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 2026-03-05, around Penwell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ector 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 56 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 136 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2021, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 20 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 16 of the 56 days reached 2 inches or more, 29% of them, the last on 2024-06-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 23 of the 56 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 Odessa -- 33 of the county's 56 hail days -- then Gardendale (9), West Odessa (8), Pleasant Farms (7) and Goldsmith (6). That one town is named on 59% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Mission Dorado, Penwell and Notrees on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Odessa | 13 | 3.00″ |
| Gardendale | 7 | 2.50″ |
| West Odessa | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Goldsmith | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Odessa | 3 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 46 of the 56 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 24 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Penwell. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-09 | 1.75″ | 9 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-02 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-03 | 1.00″ | 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 4.25 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: Midland County (49 hail days), Andrews County (32) and Crane County (20). Ector County takes more hail than any of them.
Midland County · Andrews County · Crane County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ector County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.