Natural hazards · Tucker

Tucker, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Tucker comes from tornadoes, 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 Tucker?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Tornadoes27%Inland flooding24%Cold waves15%Hurricanes13%Strong wind5%Heat waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Tucker faces

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

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 years in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about 11 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Tucker flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Neshoba County.

Disasters that hit Tucker

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into TuckerDeclared for Neshoba County only

Neshoba County has had 21 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. Tucker 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 Tucker’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Tucker. 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.