Natural hazards · DeLisle

DeLisle, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in DeLisle comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 30 claims here since 2005.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is DeLisle?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in DeLisle to be higher than in 92% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes51%Inland flooding22%Coastal flooding9%Wildfire7%Tornadoes5%Everything else6%

By hazard

What DeLisle faces

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

Hurricanes

51% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Coastal flooding

9% of expected damage

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

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 36 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 DeLisle flood?

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

30paid claims since 2005

$1.1Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20052026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Zeta: 15 claims, $60K
Hurricane Katrina: 7 claims, $481K
Hurricane Gustav: 2 claims, $67K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Harrison County.

Disasters that hit DeLisle

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeLisleDeclared for Harrison County only

Harrison County has had 26 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. DeLisle covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to DeLisle’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to DeLisle. 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 DeLisle total about $3.5M 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.