Natural hazards · Red Chute

Red Chute, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Red Chute comes from heat waves, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2012. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Red Chute?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Red Chute to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from heat waves and inland flooding.

Heat waves35%Inland flooding27%Tornadoes11%Ice storms8%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Red Chute faces

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

Heat waves

35% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Ice storms

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Red Chute flood?

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

3paid claims since 2012

$155Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20122026

Biggest named events

Late winter severe storms: 1 claim, $141K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bossier Parish.

Disasters that hit Red Chute

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Red Chute itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Red Chute.

Brought FEMA money into Red ChuteDeclared for Bossier Parish only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

1 household applied for aid

Bossier Parish has had 26 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

Around Red Chute

Red Chute and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Eastwoodmostly inland floodingModerate

Red Chutemostly heat wavesModerate

Bossier Citymostly heat wavesLow

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. Red Chute covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Red Chute’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Red Chute. 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 Red Chute total about $2.2M 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.