The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-26, 127 days ago. Steuben 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 2024-05-07 near Hudson.
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 2026-03-26, around Hamilton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Steuben 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 28 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 14 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 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2024-05-07. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Angola -- 6 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Hudson (3), Pleasant Lake (2), Golden Lake (2) and Salem Center (2). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hamilton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hudson | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Pleasant Lake | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Angola | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 NE Hudson | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 S Angola | 1 | 1.75″ |
Steuben County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (February through August) to account for 86% of the 14 days on record. May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hamilton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-07 | 3.00″ | 7 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-01 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-02-28 | 1.25″ | 3 |
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, over the state line included: Allen County (23 hail days), Elkhart County (17), Kosciusko County (14) and St. Joseph County, Michigan (14). Steuben County sits in between.
Allen County · Elkhart County · Kosciusko County · St. Joseph County, Michigan
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Steuben County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.