Lamar County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Lamar 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 2020-04-24 near Paris.
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 2026-06-23, around Paris. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lamar 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 76 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
7 of the 33 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-24. They land in the same month as everything else, April. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 18 of 33 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Paris -- 19 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Deport (8), Blossom (6), Toco (5) and Sumner (2). That one town is named on 58% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Roxton, Sun Valley and Tigertown on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Deport | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Blossom | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 2 N Paris | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Sumner | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 30 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). April is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (45%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 15 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 4 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Paris. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-24 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.75″ | 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, over the state line included: Red River County (29 hail days), Fannin County (48), Hopkins County (21) and Choctaw County, Oklahoma (22). Lamar County sits in between.
Red River County · Fannin County · Hopkins County · Choctaw County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lamar County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.