The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-20 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Winn Parish is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-01-20 near Dodson.
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 2025-05-20, around Winnfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Winn 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 18 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2019-04-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not March. 6 of the 14 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 Winnfield -- 7 of the parish's 14 hail days -- then Atlanta (3), Dodson (2) and Montgomery (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Winnfield | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Dodson | 1 | 4.25″ |
| 6 N Montgomery | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 W Atlanta | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Nw Atlanta | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs January through May: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Winnfield. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-02-05 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-13 | 1.75″ | 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 4.25 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), Natchitoches Parish (30) and La Salle Parish (14). Winn Parish sits in between.
Grant Parish · Natchitoches Parish · La Salle 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, Winn Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.