Caddo Parish was hit as recently as 2026-05-22, 70 days ago. Caddo Parish is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-17 near Blanchard.
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 2026-05-22, around Shreveport. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Caddo 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 50 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 138 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 2010, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 16 days since 2022.
6 of the 50 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-03-14. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 19 of the 50 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 Shreveport -- 27 of the parish's 50 hail days -- then Blanchard (10), Stonewall (10), Vivian (7) and Greenwood (6). That one town is named on 54% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Mooringsport, Oil City, Barksdale Air Force, Ida, Bossier City and Hosston on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shreveport | 11 | 2.00″ |
| Vivian | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Mooringsport | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Oil City | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Blanchard | 4 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 41 of the 50 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (32%). 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 | 2 |
| February | 3 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 16 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 6 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Shreveport. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 2.00″ | 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 3 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: Bossier Parish (37 hail days), De Soto Parish (16), Webster Parish (27) and Harrison County, Texas (31). Caddo Parish takes more hail than any of them.
Bossier Parish · De Soto Parish · Webster Parish · Harrison County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Caddo Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.