Delaware County, Indiana Hail Map & History
Delaware County was hit as recently as 2026-08-19, 26 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 2026-08-19, around Yorktown. 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 48 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 22 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2024-03-14. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Delaware County
Reports cluster nearest Muncie -- 10 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Royerton (3), Daleville (3), Albany (3) and Ball State Univer (2). That one town is named on 45% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Yorktown on more than one hail day apiece.
| 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″ |
When it hails in Delaware County
The season runs March through July: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (27%). 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 | 3 |
Recent Delaware County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Yorktown. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 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 |
How to read the Delaware 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 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: Madison County (22 hail days), Randolph County (15) and Grant County (18). Delaware County sits in between.
Madison County · Randolph County · Grant County
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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.