Natural hazards · Dumas

Dumas, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dumas comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dumas?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dumas to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes28%Inland flooding27%Cold waves17%Earthquakes14%Heat waves6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Dumas faces

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

Tornadoes

28% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Inland flooding

27% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 47% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

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 Dumas flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Dumas 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.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

28storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Dumas

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into DumasDeclared for Tippah County only

2026

Severe Winter Storm

74 households applied for aid $75K aid approved

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

1 household applied for aid

2010

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

5 households applied for aid

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. Dumas covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Dumas’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Dumas. 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 Dumas total about $2.1M 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.