Natural hazards · Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Pleasant comes from earthquakes, 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 Mount Pleasant?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Pleasant to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from earthquakes and inland flooding.

Earthquakes34%Inland flooding30%Tornadoes21%Cold waves6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Mount Pleasant faces

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

Earthquakes

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 29% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

21% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 33 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% 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 Mount Pleasant flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Marshall County.

Disasters that hit Mount Pleasant

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mount PleasantDeclared for Marshall County only

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