Natchitoches Parish was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Natchitoches Parish has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2010-04-24 near Natchitoches.
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 2026-05-10, around Robeline. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Natchitoches 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 54 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2025-03-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not April. 12 of the 30 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 Natchitoches -- 8 of the parish's 30 hail days -- then Provencal (8), Robeline (8), Clarence (5) and Natchez (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Campti, Powhatan and Montgomery on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Natchitoches | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Robeline | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 6 NW Robeline | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Campti | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Provencal | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 24 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, September, November and December, outside that window. July, August and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 3 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Robeline. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-22 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2023-06-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-11-29 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-10 | 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 2.5 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: Sabine Parish (21 hail days), Winn Parish (14) and Grant Parish (18). Natchitoches Parish takes more hail than any of them.
Sabine Parish · Winn 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, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.