Natural hazards · Creola

Creola, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Creola comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Creola?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Creola to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding43%Tornadoes23%Heat waves13%Strong wind8%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Creola faces

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

Inland flooding

43% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 65 years in the area

Heat waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 22 times a year in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Creola flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Grant Parish.

Disasters that hit Creola

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into CreolaDeclared for Grant Parish only

2020

Hurricane Laura

1 household applied for aid

Grant Parish has had 27 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. Creola 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 Creola’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Creola. 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.