The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. De Soto 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 2024-05-09 near Stonewall.
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 Logansport. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls De Soto 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 23 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2024-05-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 5 of the 16 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 Stonewall -- 9 of the parish's 16 hail days -- then Logansport (5) and Grand Cane (2). That one town is named on 56% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Stonewall | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Logansport | 4 | 1.00″ |
| 7 E Stonewall | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 NE Stonewall | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Stonewall | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January and June, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Logansport. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-24 | 1.75″ | 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: Caddo Parish (50 hail days), Bossier Parish (37), Sabine Parish (21), Panola County, Texas (21) and Shelby County, Texas (19). Every one of them takes more hail than De Soto Parish.
Caddo Parish · Bossier Parish · Sabine Parish · Panola County, Texas · Shelby County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, De Soto Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.