The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Daviess County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-03-14 near Owensboro.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kentucky. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-27, around Owensboro. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Daviess 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 47 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2025 alone produced 5 of the 24 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 13 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
4 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-05-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 24 days.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Owensboro -- 15 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Whitesville (6), Moseleyville (3), Philpot (3) and Utica (2). That one town is named on 62% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names West Louisville and Pellville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Owensboro | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Whitesville | 5 | 1.00″ |
| 2 SW Owensboro | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Utica | 2 | 2.00″ |
| West Louisville | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (29%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 7 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Owensboro. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 2.75″ | 9 |
| 2023-09-27 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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 2.75 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: Ohio County (20 hail days), Muhlenberg County (13), Breckinridge County (22) and Vanderburgh County, Indiana (15). Daviess County takes more hail than any of them.
Ohio County · Muhlenberg County · Breckinridge County · Vanderburgh County, Indiana
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Daviess County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.