The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-22, 131 days ago. Delaware 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 2024-03-14 near Royerton.
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 2026-03-22, around Royerton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Delaware 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 45 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
2 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2024-03-14. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 5 of the 20 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Muncie -- 10 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Royerton (3), Daleville (3), Albany (3) and Ball State Univer (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Muncie | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Albany | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Daleville | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Se Muncie | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 W Royerton | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 19 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (95%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 6 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Royerton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-14 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-23 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Randolph County (15 hail days), Madison County (20) and Grant County (16). Delaware County sits in between.
Randolph County · Madison County · Grant County
Back to the Indiana hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Delaware County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.