Daviess County, Indiana Hail Map & History
Daviess County was hit as recently as 2026-08-11, 34 days ago. Daviess County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-25 near Odon.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Indiana. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-08-11, around Cannelburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Daviess 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2026 alone produced 4 of the 16 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2011-05-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. 5 of the 16 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Daviess County
Reports cluster nearest Washington -- 7 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Odon (5) and Elnora (3). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Elnora | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 4 Sw Odon | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 3 S Newberry | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 W Montgomery | 1 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Daviess County
The season runs March through August: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Daviess County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cannelburg. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-30 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-03-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Daviess 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 2.5 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: Knox County (23 hail days), Dubois County (19) and Lawrence County (14). Daviess County sits in between.
Knox County · Dubois County · Lawrence County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Daviess County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.