Natural hazards · Lafourche Crossing

Lafourche Crossing, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lafourche Crossing comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lafourche Crossing?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lafourche Crossing to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes.

Hurricanes67%Tornadoes13%Inland flooding10%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Lafourche Crossing faces

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

Hurricanes

67% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year 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 Lafourche Crossing flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lafourche Parish.

Disasters that hit Lafourche Crossing

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Lafourche CrossingDeclared for Lafourche Parish only

Lafourche Parish has had 41 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. Lafourche Crossing 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 Lafourche Crossing’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lafourche Crossing. 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.