Natural hazards · Vienna

Vienna, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vienna comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vienna?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vienna to be higher than in 45% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding38%Tornadoes21%Strong wind11%Heat waves10%Ice storms9%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Vienna faces

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

Inland flooding

38% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Strong wind

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about 21 times a year in the area

Ice storms

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Vienna flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lincoln Parish.

Disasters that hit Vienna

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lincoln Parish shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Vienna itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into ViennaDeclared for Lincoln Parish only

Lincoln Parish has had 24 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. Vienna 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 Vienna’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Vienna. 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.