The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Vigo County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-29 near Pimento.
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 Terre Haute. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Vigo 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 43 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Vigo County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. 6 of the 20 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 Terre Haute -- 16 of the county's 20 hail days -- then North Terre Haute (2), Pimento (2), Shepardsville (2) and Prairieton (2). That one town is named on 80% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Sandford and West Terre Haute on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Terre Haute | 9 | 1.75″ |
| 4 N Pimento | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 7 E Terre Haute | 1 | 1.75″ |
| North Terre Haute | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Terre Haute | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 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 February and August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Terre Haute. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-30 | 1.50″ | 6 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-13 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-11 | 1.25″ | 5 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Putnam County (13 hail days), Fountain County (14), Montgomery County (17), Edgar County, Illinois (15) and Clark County, Illinois (16). Vigo County takes more hail than any of them.
Putnam County · Fountain County · Montgomery County · Edgar County, Illinois · Clark County, Illinois
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Vigo County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.