Natural hazards · Longstreet

Longstreet, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Longstreet comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 6 claims here since 1989. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Longstreet?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Longstreet to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding54%Strong wind12%Heat waves10%Tornadoes9%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Longstreet faces

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

Inland flooding

54% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Longstreet flood?

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

6paid claims since 1989

$185Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19892026

Biggest named events

Late winter severe storms: 2 claims, $164K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: De Soto Parish.

Disasters that hit Longstreet

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into LongstreetDeclared for De Soto Parish only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

1 household applied for aid $5K aid approved

De Soto 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. Longstreet covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Longstreet’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Longstreet. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Longstreet total about $1.7M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.