Ellis County was hit as recently as 2026-06-06, 55 days ago. Ellis 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 2023-06-14 near Waxahachie.
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 2026-06-06, around Red Oak. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ellis 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 51 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 164 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 2023, with 6 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 22 days since 2022, against 2.4 a year before that.
11 of the 51 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-29. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 19 of the 51 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 Waxahachie -- 20 of the county's 51 hail days -- then Midlothian (17), Ennis (15), Red Oak (9) and Garrett (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Ovilla, Alma, Italy, Maypearl, Pecan Hill, Palmer, Bardwell, Oak Leaf and Avalon on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Midlothian | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Waxahachie | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Ennis | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Red Oak | 6 | 1.00″ |
| Alma | 4 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 44 of the 51 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 17 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Red Oak. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-29 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-29 | 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 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: Dallas County (88 hail days), Navarro County (34) and Johnson County (50). Ellis County sits in between.
Dallas County · Navarro County · Johnson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ellis County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.