San Saba County was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. San Saba County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-05-28 near San Saba.
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 2026-05-10, around Richland Springs. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls San Saba 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 41 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 66 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 5 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 17 days since 2022, against 2.0 a year before that.
7 of the 41 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-12. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 11 of the 41 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 San Saba -- 13 of the county's 41 hail days -- then Richland Springs (10), Cherokee (8), Chappel (7) and Skeeterville (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Pontotoc, Fredonia and Elm Grove on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Richland Springs | 5 | 2.50″ |
| San Saba | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 2 Sse Cherokee | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 5 NE Chappel | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 7 Ne San Saba | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 37 of the 41 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (41%). 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, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 8 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 4 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Richland Springs. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-12 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-28 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-10 | 1.50″ | 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 2.75 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: Mills County (23 hail days), Llano County (43) and McCulloch County (37). San Saba County sits in between.
Mills County · Llano County · McCulloch County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, San Saba County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.