Natural hazards · Sibley

Sibley, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sibley comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Sibley?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sibley to be higher than in 62% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding44%Tornadoes11%Ice storms11%Heat waves11%Strong wind10%Hail6%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Sibley faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 27 years in the area

Ice storms

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Heat waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 20 times a year in the area

Strong wind

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesWinter 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 Sibley flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Webster Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2homes raised above flood level

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Sibley

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SibleyDeclared for Webster Parish only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

17 households applied for aid $13K aid approved

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

135 households applied for aid $549K aid approved

Webster Parish has had 26 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. Sibley 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 Sibley’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Sibley. 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.