Wilson County, Texas Hail Map & History
The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-13 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Wilson County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-12-18 near Sutherland Springs.
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 2024-05-13, around Poth. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wilson 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 ->How often it hails in Wilson County
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 19 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2021-12-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in December, not April. 7 of the 19 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
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Hardest-hit places in Wilson County
Reports cluster nearest Floresville -- 7 of the county's 19 hail days -- then La Vernia (6), Poth (4), Calaveras Lake (2) and Falls City (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Poth | 3 | 1.75″ |
| La Vernia | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 E La Vernia | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Floresville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 N Sutherland Springs | 1 | 2.00″ |
When it hails in Wilson County
The season runs March through May: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (42%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 6 |
| December | 1 |
Recent Wilson County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Poth. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-28 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-21 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-12-18 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-05-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Wilson County map
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 2 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Guadalupe County (18 hail days), Atascosa County (20) and Bexar County (60). Wilson County sits in between.
Guadalupe County · Atascosa County · Bexar County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wilson County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.