Natural hazards · Redwater

Redwater, MS natural hazards

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

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Redwater to be higher than in 46% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding30%Tornadoes22%Strong wind12%Cold waves9%Hurricanes8%Earthquakes7%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Redwater 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 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Strong wind

12% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Redwater flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Leake County.

Disasters that hit Redwater

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RedwaterDeclared for Leake County only

Leake County has had 22 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. Redwater 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 Redwater’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Redwater. 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.