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Starks, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Starks comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Starks?

87
Very high
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Starks to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes47%Inland flooding31%Tornadoes6%Cold waves6%Everything else11%
By hazard

What Starks faces

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

Hurricanes

47% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places
Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Starks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Starks isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Calcasieu Parish.
Disasters that hit Starks

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into StarksDeclared for Calcasieu Parish only
2021

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

5 households applied for aid $2K aid approved
2021

Severe Winter Storms

4 households applied for aid $4K aid approved
2020

Hurricane Delta

110 households applied for aid $176K aid approved
2020

Hurricane Laura

774 households applied for aid $1.6M aid approved
2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

335 households applied for aid $1.6M aid approved
2008

Hurricane Ike

366 households applied for aid $241K aid approved
2008

Hurricane Gustav

156 households applied for aid $14K aid approved
2006

Severe Storms and Flooding

21 households applied for aid $28K aid approved
2005

Hurricane Rita

1,315 households applied for aid $4.0M aid approved
2005

Hurricane Katrina

7 households applied for aid $6K aid approved
Calcasieu 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. Starks 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 Starks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Starks. 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.

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