Natural hazards · Boyce

Boyce, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Boyce comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1984. 7 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boyce?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boyce to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding38%Drought23%Hurricanes14%Cold waves12%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Boyce faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Drought

23% of expected damage

Recorded about 30 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Boyce flood?

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

4paid claims since 1984

$246Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19842026

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rapides Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1homes raised above flood level

Disasters that hit Boyce

7 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BoyceDeclared for Rapides Parish only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

23 households applied for aid $7K aid approved

2020

Hurricane Delta

50 households applied for aid $84K aid approved

2020

Hurricane Laura

1,149 households applied for aid $955K aid approved $184K to the Town of Boyce for repairs

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

10 households applied for aid $17K aid approved

2008

Hurricane Gustav

378 households applied for aid $245K aid approved

2005

Hurricane Rita

$19K to the Town of Boyce for repairs

2005

Hurricane Katrina

1 household applied for aid $2K aid approved

Rapides Parish has had 36 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. Boyce 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 Boyce’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Boyce. 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.