St. Joseph County, Indiana Hail Map & History
St. Joseph County was hit as recently as 2026-08-10, 35 days ago. St. Joseph County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-20 near Mishawaka.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Indiana. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 45 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2014, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-07-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in St. Joseph County
Reports cluster nearest South Bend -- 6 of the county's 21 hail days -- then New Carlisle (4), Mishawaka (3), Lakeville (2) and North Liberty (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Osceola, Walkerton and Gulivoire Park on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| South Bend | 5 | 1.25″ |
| New Carlisle | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Lakeville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| North Liberty | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 E South Bend | 2 | 1.50″ |
When it hails in St. Joseph County
The season runs March through August: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
Recent St. Joseph County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near South Bend. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2026-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2023-03-31 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2021-08-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-01 | 1.25″ | 4 |
How to read the St. Joseph County map
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 2.5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Elkhart County (17 hail days), La Porte County (20), Starke County (13), Berrien County, Michigan (22) and Cass County, Michigan (14). St. Joseph County sits in between.
Elkhart County · La Porte County · Starke County · Berrien County, Michigan · Cass County, Michigan
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, St. Joseph County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.