Upshur County was hit as recently as 2026-07-06, 25 days ago. Upshur County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-04-11 near Gilmer.
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 2026-07-06, around Big Sandy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Upshur 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 44 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
4 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-06-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not April. 9 of the 27 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 Gilmer -- 12 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Ore City (8), Bettie (5), Union Grove (2) and Big Sandy (2). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gilmer | 8 | 2.75″ |
| 7 SSW Ore City | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 10 Nw Gilmer | 2 | 3.50″ |
| Bettie | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 3 N Bettie | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 22 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. February, September and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Big Sandy. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 2.25″ | 5 |
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 3.5 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: Gregg County (24 hail days), Morris County (14) and Wood County (29). Upshur County sits in between.
Gregg County · Morris County · Wood County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Upshur County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.