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HailEvidencehail history → Bridgeport, TX

Bridgeport, TX hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Bridgeport city centroid, 1950 to present.

130hail events since 1950
98≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.00"largest on record · 1964-04-24
2025-05-17most recent hail event

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 6 2.75" (baseball)
2024 4 1.75" (golf ball)
2023 4 1.00" (quarter)
2022 4 2.00" (hen egg)
2021 0
2020 3 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2019 4 2.00" (hen egg)
2018 1 1.00" (quarter)
2017 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2016 6 1.00" (quarter)
2015 1 1.25" (half dollar)
2014 6 1.25" (half dollar)
2013 8 2.75" (baseball)
2012 2 1.00" (quarter)

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2025-05-17 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 6.3 mi
2025-05-17 Hail 2.75" 7.1 mi
2025-05-17 Hail 1.00" 6.3 mi
2025-05-17 Hail 1.50" 5 mi
2025-05-17 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 3.2 mi
2025-05-17 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 0.7 mi
2025-04-30 Thunderstorm Wind 55 mph 2.9 mi
2025-04-23 Hail 1.00" 1.3 mi
2025-04-19 Hail 1.25" 0.7 mi
2025-03-04 Tornado EF1 7.3 mi

2025-05-17: “Several Facebook reports relayed numerous trees down in and around Paradise with some outbuildings damaged.”

2025-05-17: “Baseball sized hail was reported just south of Runaway Bay.”

2025-05-17: “Report of 1 inch hail from mPING.”

Disputing a claim at a Bridgeport address?

This page covers the city. A claim dispute needs the record around your address: every NWS-recorded event within 1, 3 and 10 miles, the disputed date highlighted, citations formatted for an insurance appeal.

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NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-06-12