The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Franklin Parish is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-09 near Winnsboro.
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 2025-03-30, around Jigger. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Franklin 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 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 2016, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
4 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-05-09. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 6 of the 24 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 Winnsboro -- 9 of the parish's 24 hail days -- then Wisner (5), Bakers (3), Crowville (3) and Baskin (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Jigger on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Winnsboro | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Baskin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Wisner | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Ssw Bakers | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 WNW Winnsboro | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). March is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Jigger. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-12-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-02 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-09 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-16 | 1.25″ | 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 2 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: Richland Parish (24 hail days), Catahoula Parish (17) and Ouachita Parish (32). Franklin Parish sits in between.
Richland Parish · Catahoula Parish · Ouachita 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, Franklin Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.