The most recent reported hail day was 2024-02-11 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Rapides Parish is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-20 near Echo.
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 2024-02-11, around Alexandria. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rapides 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 56 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
4 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-06-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not February. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 26 days.
Across the whole of Louisiana, see the Louisiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Alexandria -- 8 of the parish's 26 hail days -- then Deville (4), Pineville (4), Glenmora (3) and Ball (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Boyce, Gardner, Echo, Holloway and Tioga on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Glenmora | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Pineville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Alexandria | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Echo | 2 | 3.50″ |
| Tioga | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through June: 21 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). February is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (19%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January, July, September and October, outside that window. August, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 5 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Alexandria. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-11 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-20 | 3.50″ | 7 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-10-12 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.00″ | 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 3.5 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: Grant Parish (18 hail days), La Salle Parish (14) and Vernon Parish (22). Rapides Parish takes more hail than any of them.
Grant Parish · La Salle Parish · Vernon 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, Rapides Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.