Natural hazards · Edgefield

Edgefield, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Edgefield comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Edgefield?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Edgefield to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and strong winds.

Inland flooding33%Strong wind24%Tornadoes18%Heat waves8%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Edgefield faces

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

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 26 years in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 21 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 Edgefield flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Red River Parish.

Disasters that hit Edgefield

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Red River Parish shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Edgefield itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into EdgefieldDeclared for Red River Parish only

Red River Parish has had 22 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. Edgefield 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 Edgefield’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Edgefield. 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.