Louisiana

Storm History: Bienville Parish, Louisiana

518 episodes, 673 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
673
Deaths
2
Injuries
10
Damage
$57 million
Episodes
518

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado17006$52 million
Hail16700$8,000
Thunderstorm Wind10802$1.1 million
Heat6600
Drought4900
Flash Flood3911
Excessive Heat2400
Winter Storm1000
Flood900$1.5 million
Winter Weather900
Ice Storm610$1.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill600$100,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Tropical Storm200$250,000
Wildfire200$175,000
Freezing Fog100
High Wind100$50,000
Lightning101$1,000
Heavy Snow100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Bienville Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bienville ParishEvery warning in Bienville Parish since 1986Every county in Louisiana

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.