Natural hazards · Point Place

Point Place, LA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Point Place?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Point Place to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding46%Heat waves12%Tornadoes10%Strong wind9%Hurricanes6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Point Place faces

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

Inland flooding

46% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 22 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 25 years in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Point Place flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Natchitoches Parish.

Disasters that hit Point Place

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Point PlaceDeclared for Natchitoches Parish only

Natchitoches Parish has had 29 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. Point Place 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 Point Place’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Point Place. 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.