The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-31, 122 days ago. King County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-04-29 near Guthrie.
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 2026-03-31, around Grow. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls King 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 29 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 8 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more, 47% of them, the last on 2025-04-29. They land in the same month as everything else, April. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 10 of 17 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Guthrie -- 12 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Grow (4) and Dumont (2). That one town is named on 71% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Guthrie | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Dumont | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 12 SSE Guthrie | 1 | 5.00″ |
| 14 ESE Guthrie | 1 | 4.50″ |
| 1 W Grow | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, July and November, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Grow. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-29 | 5.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-27 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-20 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-04-16 | 2.25″ | 6 |
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 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: Cottle County (35 hail days), Dickens County (22) and Knox County (33). Every one of them takes more hail than King County.
Cottle County · Dickens County · Knox County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, King County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.