Natural hazards · Swartz

Swartz, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Swartz comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Swartz?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Swartz to be higher than in 20% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes26%Heat waves17%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Swartz faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 47 years in the area

Heat waves

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Swartz flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Ouachita Parish.

Disasters that hit Swartz

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into SwartzDeclared for Ouachita Parish only

2020

Hurricane Laura

2 households applied for aid $449 aid approved

2016

Severe Storms and Flooding

3 households applied for aid

2008

Hurricane Gustav

1 household applied for aid

Ouachita Parish has had 32 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. Swartz 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 Swartz’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Swartz. 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.