Gillespie County was hit as recently as 2026-05-26, 66 days ago. Gillespie County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-16 near Fredericksburg.
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 2026-05-26, around LBJ State Park. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gillespie 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 124 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 8 of the 38 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 16 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 12 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more, 32% of them, the last on 2026-05-26. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 19 of 38 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
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Reports cluster nearest Fredericksburg -- 20 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Willow City (9), Harper (9), LBJ State Park (6) and Crabapple (2). That one town is named on 53% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Doss, Enchanted Rock Stat, Ingram and Tivydale on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fredericksburg | 5 | 2.50″ |
| 3 NNE Fredericksburg | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NW Fredericksburg | 4 | 3.00″ |
| 2 W LBJ State Park | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 2 WSW Willow City | 4 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 32 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (42%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February, June, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 16 |
| June | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near LBJ State Park. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-26 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-06 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2025-05-26 | 3.00″ | 12 |
| 2025-05-22 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2025-03-23 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-01 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-03-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-24 | 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 4 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: Kerr County (41 hail days), Blanco County (23) and Kendall County (23). Gillespie County sits in between.
Kerr County · Blanco County · Kendall County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gillespie County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.