Natural hazards · Baxterville

Baxterville, MS natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Baxterville?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Baxterville to be higher than in 60% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding35%Hurricanes32%Tornadoes10%Heat waves6%Wildfire5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Baxterville 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 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Wildfire

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Baxterville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lamar County.

Disasters that hit Baxterville

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Lamar County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Baxterville itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into BaxtervilleDeclared for Lamar County only

Lamar County has had 20 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

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