Natural hazards · Bovina

Bovina, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Bovina comes from drought, 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 Bovina?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Bovina to be higher than in 68% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought29%Inland flooding26%Tornadoes17%Hail11%Heat waves5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Bovina faces

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

Drought

29% of expected damage

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Hail

11% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Bovina flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Warren County.

Disasters that hit Bovina

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BovinaDeclared for Warren County only

Warren County has had 27 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. Bovina 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 Bovina’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Bovina. 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.