The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-05 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Gaines County is hit in most years. 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 2024-05-30 near Seminole.
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 2025-05-05, around Florey. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gaines 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 54 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
7 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2024-11-02. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 13 of the 29 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 Seminole -- 17 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Seagraves (9), Hobbs (3) and Higginbotham (2). That one town is named on 59% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Seminole | 6 | 2.50″ |
| 9 S Seminole | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 7 S Seagraves | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Seagraves | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 E Seagraves | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 25 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (48%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 6 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Florey. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-11-02 | 2.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-30 | 3.00″ | 8 |
| 2024-04-25 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-02 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-24 | 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 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, over the state line included: Yoakum County (21 hail days), Andrews County (32), Terry County (20) and Lea County, New Mexico (63). Gaines County sits in between.
Yoakum County · Andrews County · Terry County · Lea County, New Mexico
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gaines County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.