Natural hazards · Vidalia

Vidalia, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vidalia comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 61 claims here since 1979. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vidalia?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vidalia to be higher than in 15% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding28%Tornadoes17%Heat waves14%Cold waves13%Hurricanes10%Strong wind6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Vidalia faces

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

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 6% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Heat waves

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 17 times a year in the area

Cold waves

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Vidalia flood?

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

61paid claims since 1979

$490Kpaid to owners

4homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 4 claims, $193K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Concordia Parish.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings retrofitted against wind

1buildings floodproofed

Disasters that hit Vidalia

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into VidaliaDeclared for Concordia Parish only

2021

Severe Winter Storms

66 households applied for aid $46K aid approved $400K to the Town of Vidalia for repairs

2019

Flooding

$215K to the Town of Vidalia for repairs

2015

Flooding

$249K to the Town of Vidalia for repairs

2011

Flooding

$1.8M to the Town of Vidalia for repairs

2008

Hurricane Gustav

255 households applied for aid $214K aid approved $152K to the Town of Vidalia for repairs

2005

Hurricane Katrina

$64K to the Town of Vidalia for repairs

Concordia 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. Vidalia 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 Vidalia’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Vidalia. 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.

Vidalia, LA natural hazards

How exposed is Vidalia?

What Vidalia faces

Inland flooding

Tornadoes

Heat waves

Cold waves

Hurricanes

Strong wind

Lower here

Not a risk here

Does Vidalia flood?

Biggest named events

Homes that flooded again and again

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Severe Winter Storms

Flooding

Flooding

Flooding

Hurricane Gustav

Hurricane Katrina

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