Tippecanoe County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Tippecanoe County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-05-27 near Pine Village.
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 2026-06-16, around West Lafayette. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Tippecanoe 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 33 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 2011, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
3 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2019-05-27. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not June. 8 of the 17 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 Lafayette -- 9 of the county's 17 hail days -- then West Lafayette (4), Dayton (2) and Shadeland (2). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lafayette | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 N West Lafayette | 2 | 1.00″ |
| West Lafayette | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 9 Ene Pine Village | 1 | 4.00″ |
| 8 Se Lafayette | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 5 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near West Lafayette. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-09-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-27 | 4.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-10 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2017-03-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
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 4 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: Montgomery County (17 hail days), Fountain County (14) and Boone County (25). Tippecanoe County sits in between.
Montgomery County · Fountain County · Boone County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Tippecanoe County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.