The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Orange County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2023-06-25 near West Baden Springs.
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 Valeene. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Orange 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 34 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 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
3 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-06-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. 5 of the 15 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 French Lick -- 5 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Paoli (4), Valeene (3), Chambersburg (3) and West Baden Springs (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Hardinsburg on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Valeene | 3 | 1.75″ |
| West Baden Springs | 2 | 3.00″ |
| French Lick | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 3 Ssw French Lick | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 5 Se Paoli | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (47%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in June, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 7 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Valeene. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 3.00″ | 7 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-05 | 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 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: Crawford County (21 hail days), Lawrence County (14) and Dubois County (19). Orange County sits in between.
Crawford County · Lawrence County · Dubois County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Orange County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.