Grant Parish

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Grant Parish: 0.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Sep 1, 2008Tropical Storm, Grant$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Tropical storm force winds resulted in widespread trees and power lines downed across the entire parish. Numerous parish and secondary roads were impassable during the height of the storm from fallen debris and fallen trees. Nearly all of the parish was without power during the storm as well. The storm resulted in the death of a woman in Bentley, Louisiana when a tree hit her home. Three other people were injured when trees fell across other homes across the parish. The other injuries were not considered life-threatening. The roof was torn off a school administration building in Colfax, Louisiana.

2. May 3, 2009Thunderstorm Wind$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Trees and powerlines were downed across all of Grant Parish A woman was injured when she was struck by debris from straight line winds gusts that pushed here mobile home approximately six feet. Her foot was broken in two different places. Other damage included a few trees on homes, damaged vehicles from fallen trees as well as downed metal transmission structures.

3. Mar 31, 2009Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This tornado was a continuation of the tornado which first touched down near Natchez, Louisiana in Natchitoches Parish. Numerous trees were snapped along the path which crossed over the Red River into Grant Parish where some homes sustained minor roof damage in the town of Montgomery LA. Trees also fell across the railroad tracks along US. 71.

4. Jan 21, 2017Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph touched down along Richardson Road between the Aloha and Colfax communities and tracked northeast along Richardson Road toppling a large television antenna atop a home but just missing a large pecan orchard before later snapping/uprooting numerous trees downstream and damaging several barns and other outbuildings across a large farm. As the tornado approached Highway 71, a 3000 pound trailer was flipped over, killing a cow before landing/blocking Highway 71. The tornado continued northeast along the southeast side of Highway 471 east of Highway 71, where a single wide mobile home was flipped over and rolled about 25 yards,…

5. Oct 31, 2015Flash Flood$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding across most of Grant Parish. High water flooded at least 20 homes across the parish. Numerous roads were closed while bridges and culverts were washed out across the parish as well.

6. Mar 4, 2025Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This is the continuation of the EF-1 tornado that began in a field to the southwest of Interstate 49 in Rapides Parish just southwest of the Boyce community. This tornado, with estimated maximum winds near 90 mph tracked through Boyce, across the Red River and into extreme Southwest Grant Parish, where several small trees were snapped and uprooted on the north side of the Red River along Aaron Slayter Plantation Road before the tornado finally lifted. The tornado had a maximum width of 100 yards and tracked for approximately 1.3 miles across extreme Southwest Grant Parish before lifting.

7. Oct 31, 2018Tornado$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An EF-2 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 134 mph continued on the ground from Northern Rapides Parish into Southeast Grant Parish, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along Clear Creek Road and Barney Durand Road. A vehicle trailer was picked up and pushed around a downed tree on Barney Durand Road as well. The tornado tracked northeast to Dug Leckie Road, where a mobile home with two adults and five children was destroyed. Two of these family members suffered minor injuries. The mobile home itself was anchored into the ground with two foot anchors, but no concrete reinforcement. It was lifted out of the ground and flipped, moving approximately 20 yards. The…

8. Nov 18, 2003Thunderstorm Wind$180,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Just south of Pollock, on Highway 165, 2 houses suffered roof damage while minor damage occurred to several other homes, and 1 barn was destroyed.

9. Sep 13, 2008Tropical Storm, Grant$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Tropical storm force winds resulted in widespread trees and power lines downed throughout the parish. Power outages were widespread as well with numerous residents without power during the height of the storm and well after the storm.

10. Dec 20, 2007Lightning$150,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Three family members died in a house explosion as a result of lightning striking near the home. It was determined that the explosion was caused by a gas leak and the lightning strike. The blast shattered windows of surrounding homes as well. Debris from the explosion was found within a 200-foot radius of the home tht was totally destroyed in the blast. Two other neighboring residents were also injured.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

110°F2 times, most recently Aug 24, 2023

All-time low

4°FJan 24, 1948

Warmest night

82°F6 times, most recently Aug 13, 2023

Coldest day

24°FFeb 1, 1951

Wettest day

9.10 inApr 2, 2017

Snowiest day

6.7 inJan 30, 1949

Hottest year

2023mean 70.5°F

Coldest year

2014mean 65.2°F

Wettest year

202082.56 in

Driest year

200531.72 in

Station Alexandria International Airport (USW00093915), 82 ft elevation, 13.6 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1948 to October 25, 2026; 90.4% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USW00093915.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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