Shackelford County was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Shackelford 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 2015-04-26 near Lueders.
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 Albany. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shackelford 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 37 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2015 alone produced 8 of the 27 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
6 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2022-05-20. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 15 of 27 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Albany -- 17 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Fort Griffin (4), Moran (4), Lueders (2) and Hamby (2). That one town is named on 63% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Ibex on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Albany | 9 | 2.75″ |
| Fort Griffin | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 1 N Albany | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 ENE Albany | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Moran | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (56%). 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 and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Albany. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-03 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-20 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-21 | 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 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: Stephens County (30 hail days), Throckmorton County (38) and Callahan County (48). Every one of them takes more hail than Shackelford County.
Stephens County · Throckmorton County · Callahan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shackelford County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.