Natural hazards · Baskin

Baskin, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Baskin comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2008. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Baskin?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Baskin to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding26%Tornadoes19%Drought18%Heat waves10%Strong wind7%Hurricanes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Baskin faces

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

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

19% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Drought

18% of expected damage

Recorded about 27 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Baskin flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Baskin, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2008

$39Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20082026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Gustav: 1 claim, $39K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Franklin Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Baskin

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BaskinDeclared for Franklin Parish only

2020

Hurricane Laura

1 household applied for aid

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

7 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2008

Hurricane Gustav

45 households applied for aid $116K aid approved

2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $41K aid approved

Franklin Parish has had 31 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

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

Baskin, LA natural hazards

How exposed is Baskin?

What Baskin faces

Inland flooding

Tornadoes

Drought

Heat waves

Strong wind

Hurricanes

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Baskin flood?

Biggest named events

What’s been done with FEMA grants

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Hurricane Laura

Severe Storms and Flooding

Hurricane Gustav

Severe Storms and Flooding

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