The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Catahoula Parish is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-12-23 near Sicily Island.
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 2026-03-15, around Wallace Ridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Catahoula 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 23 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 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 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2017-01-21. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Louisiana, see the Louisiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Sicily Island -- 5 of the parish's 17 hail days -- then Jonesville (4), Larto (3) and Monterey (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jonesville | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Sicily Island | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 3 E Sicily Island | 2 | 3.00″ |
| 3 Ese Sicily Island | 1 | 4.25″ |
| 4 Sw Jonesville | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs December through April: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in May and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Wallace Ridge. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-12-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-01-21 | 3.00″ | 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 4.25 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: La Salle Parish (14 hail days), Franklin Parish (24) and Grant Parish (18). Catahoula Parish sits in between.
La Salle Parish · Franklin Parish · Grant Parish
Back to the Louisiana hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.