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Booneville, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Booneville comes from earthquakes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2012. 8 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Booneville?

50
Moderate
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Booneville to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes38%Inland flooding22%Cold waves16%Tornadoes14%Everything else10%
By hazard

What Booneville faces

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

Earthquakes

38% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage
Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

16% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places
Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Booneville flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Booneville, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2012
$14Kpaid to owners
0homes flooded more than once
20122026

Biggest named events

  • Hurricane Isaac: 1 claim, $14K
of homes in flood zones
are insured
of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Booneville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Prentiss County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

124storm safe rooms built
Disasters that hit Booneville

8 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Booneville itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Booneville.

Brought FEMA money into BoonevilleDeclared for Prentiss County only
2026

Severe Winter Storm

956 households applied for aid $1.5M aid approved $2.6M to the City of Booneville for repairs
2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$58K to the City of Booneville for repairs
2019

Severe Storm, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

$215K to the City of Booneville for repairs
2019

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$452K to the City of Booneville for repairs
2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

12 households applied for aid $26K aid approved
2010

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

$68K to the City of Booneville for repairs
2005

Hurricane Katrina

$8K to the City of Booneville for repairs
2001

Severe Storms, Tornadoes and Flooding

$16K to the City of Booneville for repairs
Prentiss County has had 18 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. Booneville covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.
Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Booneville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Booneville. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Booneville total about $3.8M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.

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