The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Live Oak County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2012-05-10 near George West.
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 2025-04-30, around Whitsett. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Live Oak 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 20 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 2 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 5 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2012-05-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest George West -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Three Rivers (3), Dinero (2), Clegg (2) and Whitsett (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 NNE Dinero | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 10 Sw George West | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 W Three Rivers | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NNE Whitsett | 1 | 1.25″ |
| Clegg | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through May: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (46%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Whitsett. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-02-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-20 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2016-02-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-05-25 | 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: Bee County (13 hail days), Duval County (13) and Atascosa County (20). Live Oak County sits in between.
Bee County · Duval County · Atascosa County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Live Oak County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.