Natural hazards · Kirkville

Kirkville, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kirkville comes from cold waves, 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 Kirkville?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kirkville to be higher than in 58% of U.S. communities, mostly from cold waves and inland flooding.

Cold waves43%Inland flooding24%Tornadoes11%Heat waves6%Earthquakes5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Kirkville faces

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

Cold waves

43% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about 16 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

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 Kirkville flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Itawamba County.

Disasters that hit Kirkville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KirkvilleDeclared for Itawamba County only

Itawamba County has had 22 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. Kirkville 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 Kirkville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kirkville. 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.