Natural hazards · Greenwood

Greenwood, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Greenwood comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 22 claims here since 2009. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Greenwood?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Greenwood to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and heat waves.

Inland flooding33%Heat waves21%Ice storms13%Cold waves8%Tornadoes7%Hail6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Greenwood 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

Well below average · higher than 22% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Ice storms

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 29 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Greenwood flood?

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

22paid claims since 2009

$627Kpaid to owners

9homes flooded more than once

20092026

Biggest named events

Late winter severe storms: 8 claims, $63K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (3) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Caddo Parish.

Disasters that hit Greenwood

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into GreenwoodDeclared for Caddo Parish only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

28 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

2020

Hurricane Laura

27 households applied for aid $22K aid approved

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

24 households applied for aid $43K aid approved

Caddo Parish has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Greenwood

Greenwood and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Shreveportmostly inland floodingModerate

Greenwoodmostly inland floodingLow

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. Greenwood 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 Greenwood’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Greenwood. 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.