The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Rush County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-05-23 near Carthage.
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 2025-05-16, around New Salem. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rush 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. They carry 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2020 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Rush County: all 15 hail days on record topped out below that. 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 Rushville -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Arlington (3), New Salem (3), Milroy (2) and Manilla (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Mays on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Manilla | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Wsw Arlington | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Carthage | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Milroy | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 6 N Rushville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near New Salem. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-14 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Shelby County (13 hail days), Hancock County (19) and Johnson County (18). Rush County sits in between.
Shelby County · Hancock County · Johnson 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, Rush County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.