Walker County was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Walker County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2020-04-18 near Huntsville.
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 Richards. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Walker 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 26 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2020 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
2 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2020-04-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not April. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 8 of 13 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Huntsville -- 8 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Riverside (3) and New Waverly (2). That one town is named on 62% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 S Huntsville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sse Huntsville | 1 | 3.50″ |
| 3 E Huntsville | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 7 Se Huntsville | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 Se Riverside | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 5 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Richards. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-07 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-05-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-18 | 3.50″ | 8 |
| 2018-03-18 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2016-01-08 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2015-04-16 | 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 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: Montgomery County (22 hail days), Polk County (15) and Houston County (23). Every one of them takes more hail than Walker County.
Montgomery County · Polk County · Houston County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Walker County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.