Ouachita Parish was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Ouachita 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 2023-12-09 near Sterlington.
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 Monroe. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ouachita 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 60 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2010, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 32 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2023-12-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in December, not April. 10 of the 32 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 Monroe -- 8 of the parish's 32 hail days -- then West Monroe (7), Sterlington (6), Richwood (6) and Brownsville-Bawco (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Swartz, Brownsville-Bawc, Claiborne and Downsville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Sterlington | 6 | 2.00″ |
| West Monroe | 5 | 1.00″ |
| Monroe | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 11 SSW Brownsville-Bawc | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 8 WSW Brownsville-Bawco | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 26 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (44%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, July and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 14 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Monroe. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.50″ | 8 |
| 2025-04-22 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-02 | 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 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: Richland Parish (24 hail days), Union Parish (29) and Morehouse Parish (28). Ouachita Parish takes more hail than any of them.
Richland Parish · Union Parish · Morehouse 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, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.