Natural hazards · Columbus AFB

Columbus AFB, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Columbus AFB comes from inland flooding, 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 Columbus AFB?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Columbus AFB to be higher than in 40% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding24%Tornadoes23%Cold waves23%Earthquakes10%Heat waves8%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Columbus AFB faces

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

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Columbus AFB flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Lowndes County.

Disasters that hit Columbus AFB

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Columbus AFBDeclared for Lowndes County only

Lowndes County has had 19 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. Columbus AFB 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 Columbus AFB’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Columbus AFB. 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.