The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-24, 98 days ago. Franklin County is hit in most years. 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 2012-04-03 near Purley.
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 2026-04-24, around Mount Vernon. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Franklin 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2021 alone produced 4 of the 18 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 18 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2012-04-03. They land in the same month as everything else, April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 18 days.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Mount Vernon -- 12 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Winnsboro (4) and Talco (2). That one town is named on 67% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Mount Vernon | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 6 E Winnsboro | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 Sw Purley | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 Nnw Mount Vernon | 1 | 1.50″ |
Franklin County has no tight season -- it takes 8 months (January through August) to account for 83% of the 18 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Mount Vernon. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-10 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-24 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Titus County (29 hail days), Hopkins County (21) and Wood County (29). Every one of them takes more hail than Franklin County.
Titus County · Hopkins County · Wood County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Franklin County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.