Wichita County was hit as recently as 2026-07-05, 26 days ago. Wichita County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5.33 inches and 5.3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-05-22 near Burkburnett.
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 Burkburnett. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wichita 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 61 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 208 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2021, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 18 days since 2022.
10 of the 61 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-26. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 29 of the 61 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 Burkburnett -- 25 of the county's 61 hail days -- then Wichita Falls (20), Electra (16), Sheppard Afb (10) and Iowa Park (8). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Kamay, Lakeside City, Haynesville and Cashion Community on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Electra | 12 | 1.75″ |
| Burkburnett | 11 | 5.33″ |
| Wichita Falls | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Iowa Park | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 NW Lakeside City | 5 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 53 of the 61 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. February, September and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 18 |
| May | 23 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Burkburnett. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 3.00″ | 9 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-11 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-22 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.75″ | 9 |
| 2025-04-01 | 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 5.33 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, over the state line included: Archer County (46 hail days), Clay County (44), Wilbarger County (35), Cotton County, Oklahoma (30) and Tillman County, Oklahoma (63). Wichita County sits in between.
Archer County · Clay County · Wilbarger County · Cotton County, Oklahoma · Tillman County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wichita County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.