Natural hazards · Paden

Paden, MS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding29%Cold waves23%Tornadoes17%Earthquakes14%Heat waves8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Paden faces

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

Inland flooding

29% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 44% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Cold waves

23% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Earthquakes

14% of expected damage

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

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about 14 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 Paden flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tishomingo County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Paden

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PadenDeclared for Tishomingo County only

Tishomingo 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. Paden 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 Paden’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Village of Paden. 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.