The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Palo Pinto County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2013-05-15 near Mineral Wells.
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 2026-04-28, around Mineral Wells. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Palo Pinto 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 45 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 86 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 2011, with 8 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 20 days since 2022, against 2.1 a year before that.
10 of the 45 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 23 of 45 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Mineral Wells -- 16 of the county's 45 hail days -- then Graford (10), Gordon (9), Palo Pinto (9) and Millsap (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Strawn, Santo, Lipan, Graham and Possum Kingdom Lake on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mineral Wells | 7 | 4.00″ |
| Palo Pinto | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Gordon | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Strawn | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 W Millsap | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 39 of the 45 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (38%). 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 and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 8 |
| April | 14 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Mineral Wells. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 2.50″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-04 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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: Parker County (59 hail days), Hood County (26) and Jack County (40). Palo Pinto County sits in between.
Parker County · Hood County · Jack County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Palo Pinto County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.