Natural hazards · Elizabeth

Elizabeth, MS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Elizabeth to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and drought.

Inland flooding40%Drought22%Tornadoes10%Earthquakes8%Cold waves7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Elizabeth faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 38% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Drought

22% of expected damage

Recorded about 14 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Elizabeth flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Washington County.

Disasters that hit Elizabeth

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ElizabethDeclared for Washington County only

Washington County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

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. Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Elizabeth. 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.