The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-02 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Hardin County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-04-15 near Bevil Oaks.
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 2024-05-02, around Kountze. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hardin 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-04-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 5 of the 19 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 Kountze -- 5 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Lumberton (5), Saratoga (3), Sour Lake (3) and Village Mills (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Wildwood and Silsbee on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kountze | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Lumberton | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Saratoga | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Village Mills | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Wildwood | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs January through May: 17 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (47%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Kountze. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 3.50″ | 10 |
| 2020-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-09 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-03 | 1.75″ | 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 3.5 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: Jefferson County (19 hail days), Tyler County (21) and Liberty County (17). Hardin County sits in between.
Jefferson County · Tyler County · Liberty County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hardin County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.