The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-04 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Yoakum 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 2024-05-30 near Denver City.
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 2025-05-04, around Denver City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Yoakum 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 40 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
5 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2025-04-22. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 9 of the 21 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 Denver City -- 9 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Plains (9), Tokio (3) and Bronco (2). That one town is named on 43% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Denver City | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Plains | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Bronco | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NNE Denver City | 1 | 3.50″ |
| 4 N Denver City | 1 | 3.50″ |
The season runs May through June: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (48%). Hail has also been reported in April and October, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 7 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Denver City. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-22 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-30 | 3.50″ | 7 |
| 2023-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.75″ | 3 |
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, over the state line included: Gaines County (29 hail days), Terry County (20), Cochran County (17) and Lea County, New Mexico (63). Yoakum County sits in between.
Gaines County · Terry County · Cochran County · Lea County, New Mexico
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Yoakum County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.