The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Vanderburgh County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.93 inches and 2.9 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-14 near Evansville.
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 2025-03-30, around Melody Hill. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Vanderburgh 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 26 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
3 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2024-05-14. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. 4 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 Evansville -- 9 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Darmstadt (3) and Melody Hill (3). That one town is named on 60% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Evansville | 7 | 2.93″ |
| McCutchanville | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 N Evansville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ne Darmstadt | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 1 N Melody Hill | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in June and July, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Melody Hill. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-14 | 2.93″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-08 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-10 | 2.00″ | 7 |
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 2.93 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: Gibson County (20 hail days), Dubois County (19), Knox County (23), Daviess County, Kentucky (24) and Webster County, Kentucky (14). Vanderburgh County sits in between.
Gibson County · Dubois County · Knox County · Daviess County, Kentucky · Webster County, Kentucky
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Vanderburgh County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.