Starke County, Indiana Hail Map & History
Starke County was hit as recently as 2026-08-11, 28 days ago. Starke 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 2026-08-11 near Toto.
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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See call-center options ->How often it hails in Starke County
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 32 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
3 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-08-11. They land in the same month as everything else, August. 6 of the 13 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Starke County
Reports cluster nearest North Judson -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Knox (3), Toto (3) and San Pierre (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Knox | 3 | 3.00″ |
| North Judson | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Toto | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 W Toto | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 1 N North Judson | 1 | 2.75″ |
When it hails in Starke County
The season runs May through August: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). August is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in March and April, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 4 |
Recent Starke County hail days
That day put 8 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Toto. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 3.00″ | 8 |
| 2026-08-10 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-25 | 3.00″ | 8 |
| 2022-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-08 | 1.50″ | 1 |
How to read the Starke 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 3 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: La Porte County (20 hail days), Porter County (22) and St. Joseph County (21). Every one of them takes more hail than Starke County.
La Porte County · Porter County · St. Joseph County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Starke County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.