Natural hazards · Avondale

Avondale, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avondale comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avondale?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avondale to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes72%Inland flooding16%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Avondale faces

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

Hurricanes

72% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Avondale flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

5homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit Avondale

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into AvondaleDeclared for Jefferson Parish only

2024

Hurricane Francine

56 households applied for aid $155K aid approved

2021

Hurricane Ida

1,462 households applied for aid $3.9M aid approved

2020

Hurricane Zeta

67 households applied for aid $53K aid approved

2012

Hurricane Isaac

962 households applied for aid $323K aid approved

2008

Hurricane Ike

58 households applied for aid $16K aid approved

2008

Hurricane Gustav

1,574 households applied for aid $191K aid approved

2007

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

2 households applied for aid

2005

Hurricane Rita

196 households applied for aid $173K aid approved

2005

Hurricane Katrina

1,620 households applied for aid $6.2M aid approved

2004

Hurricane Ivan

10 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

Jefferson Parish has had 37 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Avondale

Avondale and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Avondalemostly hurricanesVery high

Waggamanmostly hurricanesVery high

Harahanmostly hurricanesVery high

Bridge Citymostly hurricanesVery high

Elmwoodmostly hurricanesVery high

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. Avondale 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 Avondale’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Avondale. 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.