Marion County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Marion County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-22 near Camby.
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 Speedway. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marion 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 136 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
7 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2021-06-18. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 9 of the 39 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Indianapolis -- 22 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Southport (9), Beech Grove (6), Lawrence (5) and Castleton (4). That one town is named on 56% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Cumberland, Speedway, New Palestine, Camby, Warren Park, Indianapolis Int'L, Mccordsville, Clermont and Meridian Hills on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis | 15 | 2.00″ |
| Lawrence | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Beech Grove | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Camby | 2 | 3.00″ |
| 1 Sse Castleton | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 34 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 6 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Speedway. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.50″ | 2 |
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 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: Hancock County (19 hail days), Johnson County (18) and Hamilton County (22). Marion County takes more hail than any of them.
Hancock County · Johnson County · Hamilton 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, Marion County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.