Natural hazards · Longview

Longview, MS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding31%Tornadoes23%Cold waves18%Heat waves8%Earthquakes7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Longview faces

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

Inland flooding

31% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Cold waves

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% 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 Longview flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oktibbeha County.

Disasters that hit Longview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LongviewDeclared for Oktibbeha County only

Oktibbeha County has had 15 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. Longview 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 Longview’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Longview. 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.