Natural hazards · Pine Prairie

Pine Prairie, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pine Prairie comes from cold waves, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 1982. 5 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pine Prairie?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pine Prairie to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves28%Inland flooding24%Tornadoes22%Hurricanes15%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Pine Prairie faces

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

Cold waves

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 14 years in the area

Hurricanes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Pine Prairie flood?

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

1paid claims since 1982

$543paid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19822026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Evangeline Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings retrofitted against wind

Disasters that hit Pine Prairie

5 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pine PrairieDeclared for Evangeline Parish only

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $750 aid approved

2012

Hurricane Isaac

$2K to the Village of Pine Prairie for repairs

2008

Hurricane Gustav

92 households applied for aid $32K aid approved

2005

Hurricane Rita

128 households applied for aid $63K aid approved $26K to the Village of Pine Prairie for repairs

2002

Hurricane Lili

$9K to the Village of Pine Prairie for repairs

Evangeline Parish has had 24 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. Pine Prairie 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 Pine Prairie’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Pine Prairie. 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.