The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-11 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Polk County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-05-09 near Onalaska.
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 2025-06-11, around Goodrich. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Polk 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 27 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2024-05-09. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 6 of the 15 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 Livingston -- 8 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Onalaska (5), Corrigan (3) and Goodrich (2). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Corrigan | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Onalaska | 1 | 4.50″ |
| 10 Wnw Livingston | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wnw Livingston | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 WSW Goodrich | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in January and June, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Goodrich. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-11 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-08 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-02-11 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-09 | 4.50″ | 2 |
| 2018-03-18 | 1.75″ | 6 |
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 4.5 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: Walker County (13 hail days), Tyler County (21) and Angelina County (21). Polk County sits in between.
Walker County · Tyler County · Angelina County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Polk County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.