Natural hazards · Beauregard

Beauregard, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Beauregard comes from tornadoes, 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 Beauregard?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Beauregard to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes32%Inland flooding28%Heat waves9%Hurricanes8%Hail6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Beauregard faces

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

Tornadoes

32% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Hail

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Beauregard flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Copiah County.

Disasters that hit Beauregard

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BeauregardDeclared for Copiah County only

Copiah County has had 22 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. Beauregard 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 Beauregard’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Beauregard. 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.