Val Verde County was hit as recently as 2026-05-19, 73 days ago. Val Verde County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-04-11 near Del Rio.
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 2026-05-19, around Laughlin AFB. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Val Verde 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 51 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 93 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
5 of the 51 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2026-04-29. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 16 of the 51 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 Del Rio -- 18 of the county's 51 hail days -- then Laughlin AFB (10), Lake View (8), Comstock (7) and Rough Canyon Recr (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Juno, Carta Valley, Langtry, Pandale and Seminole Canyon State P on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Laughlin AFB | 7 | 2.50″ |
| 1 S Del Rio | 3 | 4.00″ |
| 3 WNW Laughlin AFB | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Wnw Del Rio | 2 | 4.00″ |
| 3 Nw Del Rio | 2 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 43 of the 51 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 10 |
| April | 16 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Laughlin AFB. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-19 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-29 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-14 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2025-10-24 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-02 | 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 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: Kinney County (21 hail days), Edwards County (28) and Maverick County (20). Val Verde County takes more hail than any of them.
Kinney County · Edwards County · Maverick County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Val Verde County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.