Natural hazards · Langston

Langston, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Langston comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Langston?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Langston to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding42%Tornadoes24%Cold waves14%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Langston faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

42% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Langston flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Langston.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Langston isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Jackson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Langston

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Langston itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Langston.

Brought FEMA money into LangstonDeclared for Jackson County only

2019

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$39K to the Town of Langston for repairs

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

42 households applied for aid $42K aid approved $3K to the Town of Langston for repairs

2009

Severe Storms, Flooding, Tornadoes, and Straight-Line Winds

$13K to the Town of Langston for repairs

Jackson County has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Langston is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Langston’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Langston. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.