Natural hazards · Big Point

Big Point, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Big Point comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Big Point?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Big Point to be higher than in 93% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes55%Inland flooding27%Tornadoes6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Big Point faces

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

Hurricanes

55% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 23 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Big Point flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jackson County.

Disasters that hit Big Point

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Big PointDeclared for Jackson County only

Jackson County has had 26 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. Big Point 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 Big Point’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Big Point. 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.