Rusk County was hit as recently as 2026-05-22, 70 days ago. Rusk County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2021-04-09 near Henderson.
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 2026-05-22, around New London. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rusk 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 67 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
6 of the 33 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-03-30. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 9 of the 33 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 Henderson -- 18 of the county's 33 hail days -- then New London (6), Mount Enterprise (5), Reklaw (4) and Kilgore (3). That one town is named on 55% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Tatum, Lakeport, Overton and Cushing on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Henderson | 7 | 2.75″ |
| 10 Sw Henderson | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 4 E New London | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 6 S New London | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 6 WNW Henderson | 2 | 1.00″ |
Rusk County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (January through July) to account for 85% of the 33 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near New London. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-26 | 2.75″ | 8 |
| 2023-03-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-14 | 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 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: Gregg County (24 hail days), Cherokee County (35) and Panola County (21). Rusk County sits in between.
Gregg County · Cherokee County · Panola County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rusk County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.