Austin Hail & Storm Events

Measures: individual severe-weather reports (hail, wind, flood, tornado) filed with NOAA. Geography: Travis County and its bordering counties — 7 counties with reports in this window. Coverage: events recorded between October 2025 and June 2026. Checked on each ingestion run; NOAA publishes storm reports on a lag of several months.

How much hail has the Austin area had recently?

NOAA recorded 20 hail events across the seven-county Austin area between October 2025 and June 2026, 16 of them at 1.0 inch or larger. The largest measured 2.00 inches. Every event in that count appears in the table on this page, with its date, size and county.

What size hail damages a roof?

Roofing contractors and property insurers generally treat hail of about 1.0 inch — roughly a quarter — as the point where asphalt shingles start to bruise or lose granules. Smaller hail can still damage older or already-worn roofs. This threshold is an industry rule of thumb we apply to the NOAA figures, not a measurement, and it does not confirm damage to any specific roof.

Which Austin-area counties get the most severe weather?

In this reporting window the most-affected counties were Williamson County (30), Travis County (25) and Burnet County (16). Storm reports are filed at county level, so a county's total reflects both real activity and how often events there were observed and reported.

When is hail season in the Austin area?

Activity in this window concentrated in spring: May 2026 alone accounted for 47 of the 88 recorded events. This page covers October 2025 and June 2026, which is too short a span to establish a seasonal norm on its own — treat it as what was recorded, not as a long-run climatology.

Should I get my Austin roof inspected after a hailstorm?

If your address falls in a county and month listed in the table above and your roof is 15 years or older, an inspection is generally worth requesting even without a visible leak. Hail damage frequently shows as granule loss or bruising that is not visible from the ground, and most Texas policies limit how long after a storm a claim can be filed.

Methodology

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, filtered to Travis County and its bordering counties (Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Caldwell, Burnet and Blanco). Records are re-fetched on each ingestion run and merged by NOAA's own event identifier, so corrections republished by NOAA update in place rather than duplicating. Observations are append-only: if a scheduled update fails, the last known-good values are preserved and marked stale with the date they were last confirmed, rather than being shown as zero or blank.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database. Last confirmed October 6, 2026. See our full methodology for how we handle stale data, historical observations, and source attribution across the site.