The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Monroe County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2015-04-08 near Unionville.
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 2026-04-27, around Smithville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Monroe 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 61 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2023-06-25. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 10 of the 28 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 Bloomington -- 13 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Ellettsville (5), Unionville (4), Whitehall (4) and Stinesville (3). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Indiana University, Smithville, Woodview Hills and Lake Lemon on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomington | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Unionville | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Ellettsville | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 SE Ellettsville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 SE Bloomington | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 25 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Smithville. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2026-02-19 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 2.50″ | 7 |
| 2022-05-14 | 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: Brown County (13 hail days), Morgan County (25) and Lawrence County (14). Monroe County takes more hail than any of them.
Brown County · Morgan County · Lawrence 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, Monroe County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.