We used single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to study self-diffusion of a feedstock-like probe molecule with nanometer accuracy in the macro pores of a micrometer-sized, real-life fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) particle. Movies of single fluorescent molecules allowed their movement through the pore network to be reconstructed. The observed tracks were classified into-three different states by machine learning and all found to be distributed homogeneously over the;particle. Most probe molecules (88%) were immobile, with the molecule most likely being physisorbed or trapped;, the remainder was either mobile (8%), with the molecule moving inside the macropores, or showed hybrid behavior (4%). Mobile tracks had an average diffusion coefficient of D = 8 X 10(-14) +/- 1 X 10(-13) m(2) s(-1), with the standard deviation thought to be related to the large range of pore sizes found in FCC partieles. The developed methodology can be used to evaluate, quantify and map heterogeneities in diffusional properties within complex hierarchically porous materials.