The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-25, 97 days ago. Lincoln Parish is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-14 near Simsboro.
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 2026-04-25, around Arcadia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lincoln 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 24 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 2012, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Lincoln Parish: all 16 hail days on record topped out below that. 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 Grambling -- 5 of the parish's 16 hail days -- then Dubach (4), Ruston (4), Vienna (3) and Simsboro (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Arcadia on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Grambling | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Dubach | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Simsboro | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Vienna | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Ene Simsboro | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through April: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (44%). Hail has also been reported in June and November, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 6 |
| April | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Arcadia. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-13 | 1.00″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest parishes with a page of their own: Union Parish (29 hail days), Claiborne Parish (14) and Ouachita Parish (32). Lincoln Parish sits in between.
Union Parish · Claiborne Parish · Ouachita Parish
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.