Natural hazards · Venice

Venice, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Venice comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Venice?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Venice to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and coastal flooding.

Hurricanes62%Coastal flooding34%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Venice faces

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

Hurricanes

62% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Coastal flooding

34% of expected damage

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

Lower here

Inland floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Venice flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Plaquemines Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings floodproofed

Disasters that hit Venice

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into VeniceDeclared for Plaquemines Parish only

2021

Hurricane Ida

98 households applied for aid $214K aid approved

2020

Hurricane Zeta

7 households applied for aid $7K aid approved

2012

Hurricane Isaac

102 households applied for aid $140K aid approved

2008

Hurricane Ike

15 households applied for aid $6K aid approved

2008

Hurricane Gustav

49 households applied for aid $28K aid approved

2005

Hurricane Rita

117 households applied for aid $148K aid approved

2005

Hurricane Katrina

488 households applied for aid $4.4M aid approved

2004

Hurricane Ivan

126 households applied for aid $192K aid approved

Plaquemines Parish has had 33 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. Venice 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 Venice’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Venice. 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.