Potter County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Potter County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-05-16 near Masterson.
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 2026-06-23, around Bushland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Potter 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 80 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 275 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 13 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 21 days since 2022.
17 of the 80 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-05-22. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 34 of the 80 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 Amarillo -- 55 of the county's 80 hail days -- then Bushland (16), Valley de Oro (16), Washburn (7) and Masterson (6). That one town is named on 69% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Pantex and Fritch on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Valley de Oro | 11 | 2.00″ |
| 7 ENE Amarillo | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Amarillo | 9 | 2.75″ |
| 1 W Amarillo | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ese Amarillo | 5 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 64 of the 80 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 23 |
| June | 16 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 8 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Bushland. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-22 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-03 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-20 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-11 | 2.50″ | 6 |
| 2025-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-11-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-19 | 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 3 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: Randall County (86 hail days), Carson County (73) and Armstrong County (42). Potter County sits in between.
Randall County · Carson County · Armstrong County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Potter County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.