Natural hazards · Kossuth

Kossuth, MS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kossuth to be higher than in 50% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding30%Tornadoes24%Earthquakes17%Cold waves17%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Kossuth faces

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

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

24% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Cold waves

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Kossuth flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alcorn County.

Disasters that hit Kossuth

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KossuthDeclared for Alcorn County only

Alcorn County has had 14 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. Kossuth 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 Kossuth’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Kossuth. 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.