The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Houston County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-04-06 near Grapeland.
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 2026-03-15, around Lovelady. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Houston 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 42 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 2017, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 23 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2019-04-06. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 6 of the 23 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 Grapeland -- 11 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Kennard (7), Crockett (6), Lovelady (5) and Latexo (3). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kennard | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Grapeland | 3 | 4.50″ |
| Crockett | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 E Grapeland | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nne Grapeland | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 21 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (52%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in November and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lovelady. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2024-11-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-05 | 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 4.5 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: Anderson County (36 hail days), Leon County (21) and Cherokee County (35). Houston County sits in between.
Anderson County · Leon County · Cherokee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Houston County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.