Lake County was hit as recently as 2026-06-24, 37 days ago. Lake County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-07-13 near Hammond.
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 2026-06-24, around Highland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lake 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 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 73 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 34 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2015-07-13. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 9 of the 34 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 Crown Point -- 7 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Highland (6), Merrillville (5), Hobart (5) and Cedar Lake (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Griffith, Hammond, Dyer, Lowell, Lake Station, Munster, Schererville, St. John and New Chicago on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Crown Point | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Highland | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Hammond | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Merrillville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Griffith | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 29 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, August and October, outside that window. September, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Highland. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-01 | 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 2.75 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: Porter County (21 hail days), La Porte County (20), Newton County (14), Cook County, Illinois (75) and Will County, Illinois (56). Lake County sits in between.
Porter County · La Porte County · Newton County · Cook County, Illinois · Will County, Illinois
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lake County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.