Natural hazards · Gillis

Gillis, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gillis comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high 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 Gillis?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gillis to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes40%Inland flooding40%Tornadoes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Gillis faces

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

Hurricanes

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 29 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce 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 Gillis flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Calcasieu Parish.

Disasters that hit Gillis

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GillisDeclared for Calcasieu Parish only

2008

Hurricane Gustav

1 household applied for aid

Calcasieu Parish has had 29 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. Gillis 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 Gillis’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Gillis. 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.