Natural hazards · Chalybeate

Chalybeate, MS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Chalybeate to be higher than in 53% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and earthquakes.

Tornadoes27%Earthquakes24%Inland flooding21%Cold waves15%Heat waves6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Chalybeate faces

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

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Earthquakes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% 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 Chalybeate flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tippah County.

Disasters that hit Chalybeate

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ChalybeateDeclared for Tippah County only

Tippah County has had 16 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. Chalybeate 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 Chalybeate’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Chalybeate. 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.