Natural hazards · Biggersville

Biggersville, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Biggersville 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 Biggersville?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Tornadoes28%Inland flooding26%Cold waves20%Earthquakes12%Heat waves6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Biggersville faces

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

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Biggersville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alcorn County.

Disasters that hit Biggersville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BiggersvilleDeclared for Alcorn County only

Alcorn County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

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