Elkhart County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Elkhart County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2023-07-20 near Jimtown.
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 2026-06-16, around Waterford Mills. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Elkhart 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 34 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-07-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Elkhart -- 6 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Jimtown (4), Goshen (3), Middlebury (2) and Millersburg (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Dunlap on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Goshen | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Elkhart | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Jimtown | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Middlebury | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Millersburg | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs May through September: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February and March, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Waterford Mills. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2023-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2022-06-13 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-01 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-16 | 2.00″ | 3 |
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, over the state line included: St. Joseph County (19 hail days), Kosciusko County (14), Steuben County (14), Cass County, Michigan (14) and St. Joseph County, Michigan (14). Elkhart County sits in between.
St. Joseph County · Kosciusko County · Steuben County · Cass County, Michigan · St. Joseph County, Michigan
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Elkhart County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.