Natural hazards · Lakeshore

Lakeshore, LA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lakeshore?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lakeshore to be higher than in 10% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding27%Tornadoes26%Heat waves16%Earthquakes12%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Lakeshore faces

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

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 7% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Heat waves

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Lakeshore flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ouachita Parish.

Disasters that hit Lakeshore

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LakeshoreDeclared for Ouachita Parish only

Ouachita Parish has had 32 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Lakeshore

Lakeshore and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Monroemostly inland floodingVery low

Lakeshoremostly inland floodingVery low

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