The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-06 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Loving County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-04-09 near Orla.
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 2025-06-06, around Slash Ranch. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Loving 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2021-05-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 5 of the 14 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 Mentone -- 9 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Orla (3) and Slash Ranch (3). That one town is named on 64% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mentone | 4 | 1.25″ |
| 2 W Mentone | 2 | 4.00″ |
| 6 E Orla | 1 | 4.00″ |
| 7 N Orla | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 15 Ne Orla | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Slash Ranch. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-28 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-06-01 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-03-12 | 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 4 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: Winkler County (20 hail days), Reeves County (30) and Ward County (28). Every one of them takes more hail than Loving County.
Winkler County · Reeves County · Ward County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Loving County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.