The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-12 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Beauregard Parish 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 2014-12-23 near Tulla.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Louisiana. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-05-12, around Ragley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Beauregard Parish 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. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2020 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
2 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2016-01-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not May. 7 of the 20 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Louisiana, see the Louisiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ragley -- 6 of the parish's 20 hail days -- then De Ridder (5), Deridder (3), Singer (3) and Tulla (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Fields on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| De Ridder | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Ragley | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Fields | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 E Ragley | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Singer | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs January through May: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, July and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Ragley. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-12 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2020-05-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2020-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-05 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-02-05 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-19 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 parishes and counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Vernon Parish (22 hail days), Allen Parish (17), Calcasieu Parish (28) and Newton County, Texas (13). Beauregard Parish sits in between.
Vernon Parish · Allen Parish · Calcasieu Parish · Newton County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.