Taylor County was hit as recently as 2026-07-05, 26 days ago. Taylor County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2014-06-12 near Impact.
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 2026-07-05, around View. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Taylor 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 66 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 181 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2024, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 24 days since 2022.
16 of the 66 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-03-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 29 of the 66 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 Abilene -- 31 of the county's 66 hail days -- then Potosi (12), View (12), Tuscola (10) and Buffalo Gap (9). That one town is named on 47% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Tye, Lawn, Merkel, Dyess Afb, Impact, Ovalo, Happy Valley, Bradshaw and Trent on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Abilene | 11 | 2.75″ |
| Tuscola | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Tye | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Potosi | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 3 NE Abilene | 4 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 55 of the 66 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 25 of them (38%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February, June, July and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 23 |
| May | 25 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near View. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2025-06-08 | 2.50″ | 6 |
| 2025-05-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-18 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-22 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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: Callahan County (48 hail days), Jones County (58) and Nolan County (43). Taylor County takes more hail than any of them.
Callahan County · Jones County · Nolan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Taylor County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.