Natural hazards · New Site

New Site, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in New Site comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is New Site?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding36%Cold waves20%Tornadoes18%Earthquakes11%Heat waves6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What New Site faces

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

Inland flooding

36% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about 15 times a year in the area

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 New Site flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Prentiss County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

8storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit New Site

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in New Site itself: aid to households, or repair grants to New Site.

Brought FEMA money into New SiteDeclared for Prentiss County only

2026

Severe Winter Storm

16 households applied for aid $28K aid approved

Prentiss County has had 18 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. New Site 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 New Site’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to New Site. 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.