Bossier Parish was hit as recently as 2026-05-08, 84 days ago. Bossier Parish is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-04-24 near Benton.
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 2026-05-08, around Benton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bossier 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 37 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 92 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
4 of the 37 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2024-02-11. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 12 of the 37 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 Bossier City -- 14 of the parish's 37 hail days -- then Benton (11), Haughton (8), Barksdale Air For (6) and Red Chute (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Plain Dealing and Eastwood on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bossier City | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Benton | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 5 SSE Benton | 3 | 4.00″ |
| Haughton | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Plain Dealing | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 31 of the 37 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. July, August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 6 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Benton. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-09-21 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-15 | 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 4 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest parishes with a page of their own: Caddo Parish (50 hail days), Webster Parish (27) and De Soto Parish (16). Bossier Parish sits in between.
Caddo Parish · Webster Parish · De Soto Parish
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bossier Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.