The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-11, 142 days ago. Indiana County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-05-04 near Indiana.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Pennsylvania. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-03-11, around Clymer. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Indiana 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 68 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2025-05-04. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Clymer -- 4 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Homer City (3), Indiana (2), Plumville (2) and Blairsville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Marion Center, Black Lick and Glen Campbell on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Homer City | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 SE Indiana | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 2 N Lucerne Mines | 1 | 2.25″ |
| 1 Nw Plumville | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 SSE Indiana | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 18 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Clymer. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-04 | 2.50″ | 14 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-28 | 1.25″ | 8 |
| 2019-05-23 | 1.25″ | 3 |
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 2.5 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: Armstrong County (13 hail days), Cambria County (13) and Westmoreland County (37). Indiana County sits in between.
Armstrong County · Cambria County · Westmoreland County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Indiana County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.