Natural hazards · Wallace Ridge

Wallace Ridge, LA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wallace Ridge comes from drought, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wallace Ridge?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wallace Ridge to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought31%Inland flooding21%Hurricanes15%Tornadoes7%Heat waves7%Cold waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Wallace Ridge faces

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

Drought

31% of expected damage

Recorded about 24 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 15% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 18 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Wallace Ridge flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Catahoula Parish.

Disasters that hit Wallace Ridge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Wallace RidgeDeclared for Catahoula Parish only

Catahoula 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. Wallace Ridge 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 Wallace Ridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wallace Ridge. 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.