Natural hazards · Brooksville

Brooksville, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brooksville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brooksville?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brooksville to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding29%Tornadoes23%Cold waves14%Heat waves8%Hurricanes6%Earthquakes6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Brooksville faces

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

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Cold waves

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Brooksville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Noxubee County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

12storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Brooksville

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrooksvilleDeclared for Noxubee County only

2005

Hurricane Katrina

558 households applied for aid $504K aid approved

2002

Severe Storms and Tornadoes

4 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

Noxubee County has had 17 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. Brooksville 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 Brooksville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Brooksville. 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.