The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Montgomery County is hit in most years. 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 2014-05-21 near Waveland.
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 Linden. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Montgomery 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. They carry 29 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2014-05-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. 6 of the 17 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 Crawfordsville -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Ladoga (4), Linden (3), New Market (3) and New Ross (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Darlington and Wingate on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ladoga | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Crawfordsville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Wingate | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Waveland | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 2 E Linden | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in August and October, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 6 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Linden. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-10-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-28 | 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 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: Boone County (25 hail days), Fountain County (14) and Tippecanoe County (17). Montgomery County sits in between.
Boone County · Fountain County · Tippecanoe 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, Montgomery County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.