Henderson County was hit as recently as 2026-05-24, 68 days ago. Henderson County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-06-01 near Malakoff.
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 2026-05-24, around Athens. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Henderson 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 75 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 16 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
4 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2026-04-29. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 14 of the 38 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 Athens -- 9 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Eustace (7), Malakoff (6), Seven Points (5) and Trinidad (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Gun Barrel City, Brownsboro, Chandler, Moore Station, Coffee City, Poynor, Tool, Enchanted Oaks and Star Harbor on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Eustace | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Seven Points | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Malakoff | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 1 ESE Malakoff | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Tool | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs January through June: 32 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (34%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August, September and October, outside that window. November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Athens. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-29 | 2.50″ | 8 |
| 2026-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-06-01 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-09 | 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 2.75 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: Van Zandt County (22 hail days), Anderson County (36) and Smith County (53). Henderson County sits in between.
Van Zandt County · Anderson County · Smith County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Henderson County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.