Natural hazards · Hide-A-Way Lake

Hide-A-Way Lake, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hide-A-Way Lake comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2021.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hide-A-Way Lake?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hide-A-Way Lake to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes50%Inland flooding33%Tornadoes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Hide-A-Way Lake faces

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

Hurricanes

50% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 88% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Hide-A-Way Lake flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Hide-A-Way Lake, from FEMA’s records.

3paid claims since 2021

$66Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20212026

Biggest named events

2026-06-Arthur-TS: 1 claim, $14K
Hurricane Ida: 1 claim, $32K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pearl River County.

Disasters that hit Hide-A-Way Lake

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Pearl River County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Hide-A-Way Lake itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Hide-A-Way LakeDeclared for Pearl River County only

Pearl River County has had 29 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. Hide-A-Way Lake covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hide-A-Way Lake’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hide-A-Way Lake. 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 Hide-A-Way Lake total about $4.4M 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.