Hancock County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Hancock County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 3.25 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-06-18 near Cumberland.
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 New Palestine. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hancock 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 40 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 19 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2021-06-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 19 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cumberland -- 7 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Greenfield (7), New Palestine (6), Mccordsville (3) and Wilkinson (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| New Palestine | 4 | 3.25″ |
| Cumberland | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Greenfield | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 1 E Cumberland | 2 | 3.25″ |
| 2 Nne New Palestine | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (26%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near New Palestine. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-02-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-18 | 3.25″ | 8 |
| 2020-10-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-20 | 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 3.25 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: Marion County (39 hail days), Shelby County (13) and Hamilton County (22). Hancock County sits in between.
Marion County · Shelby County · Hamilton County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hancock County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.