The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 days ago. Claiborne Parish is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-25 near Homer.
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 2026-04-29, around Homer. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Claiborne 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 20 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 3 of the 14 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 6 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2026-04-25. They land in the same month as everything else, April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Louisiana, see the Louisiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Homer -- 11 of the parish's 14 hail days -- then Haynesville (3) and Lisbon (2). That one town is named on 79% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Homer | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Haynesville | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 5 ESE Homer | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 7 WSW Homer | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 W Homer | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Homer. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-25 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-02-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-12-13 | 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 2.75 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: Webster Parish (27 hail days), Lincoln Parish (16), Union Parish (29) and Columbia County, Arkansas (14). Claiborne Parish sits in between.
Webster Parish · Lincoln Parish · Union Parish · Columbia County, Arkansas
Back to the Louisiana hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.