Natural hazards · Delacroix

Delacroix, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Delacroix comes from coastal flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Delacroix?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Delacroix to be higher than in 100% of U.S. communities, mostly from coastal flooding and hurricanes.

Coastal flooding68%Hurricanes26%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Delacroix faces

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

Coastal flooding

68% of expected damage

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

Hurricanes

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Delacroix flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: St. Bernard Parish.

Disasters that hit Delacroix

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DelacroixDeclared for St. Bernard Parish only

2024

Hurricane Francine

1 household applied for aid

2012

Hurricane Isaac

2 households applied for aid

St. Bernard Parish has had 35 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. Delacroix 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 Delacroix’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Delacroix. 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.