Vanderburgh County, Indiana Hail Map & History
Vanderburgh County was hit as recently as 2026-08-12, 33 days ago. 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.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 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 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, 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 16 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 Vanderburgh County
Reports cluster nearest Evansville -- 9 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Melody Hill (4) and Darmstadt (3). That one town is named on 56% 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″ |
When it hails in Vanderburgh County
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
Recent Vanderburgh County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Melody Hill. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 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 |
How to read the Vanderburgh 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 2.93 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: Gibson County (20 hail days), Dubois County (19), Knox County (23), Daviess County, Kentucky (25) 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.