Pecos County was hit as recently as 2026-05-20, 72 days ago. Pecos County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-04-26 near Fort Stockton.
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 2026-05-20, around Belding. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pecos 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 96 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 5.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 250 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2019, with 13 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 22 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 29 of the 96 days reached 2 inches or more, 30% of them, the last on 2025-06-05. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 63 of 96 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Fort Stockton -- 61 of the county's 96 hail days -- then Iraan (15), Bakersfield (12), Belding (11) and Imperial (8). That one town is named on 64% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Coyanosa, Longfellow, Sheffield, Sanderson, Grandfalls and Hovey on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Stockton | 13 | 2.50″ |
| Iraan | 12 | 2.75″ |
| Belding | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Sheffield | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 1 SW Fort Stockton | 4 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 87 of the 96 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (91%). May is the single busiest month, with 47 of them (49%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, July, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 20 |
| May | 47 |
| June | 20 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 6 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Belding. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-10-24 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-05 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-26 | 5.00″ | 7 |
| 2025-04-22 | 2.75″ | 14 |
| 2024-06-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-02 | 4.00″ | 3 |
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: Crane County (20 hail days), Upton County (22) and Ward County (28). Pecos County takes more hail than any of them.
Crane County · Upton County · Ward County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pecos County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.