The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-03 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Jeff Davis County is hit in most years. 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 2012-05-31 near Fort Davis.
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 2025-05-03, around Fort Davis. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jeff Davis 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. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2019 alone produced 5 of the 23 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
4 of the 23 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2019-06-17. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 7 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 Fort Davis -- 16 of the county's 23 hail days -- then McDonald Observatory (4), Valentine (2), Kent (2) and McDonald Observat (2). That one town is named on 70% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Davis | 5 | 2.00″ |
| McDonald Observatory | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 5 NE Fort Davis | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Valentine | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 3 E Valentine | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (48%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Fort Davis. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-26 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2022-10-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-09-30 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-07-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-17 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-14 | 1.25″ | 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: Presidio County (14 hail days), Brewster County (46) and Reeves County (30). Jeff Davis County sits in between.
Presidio County · Brewster County · Reeves County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jeff Davis County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.