Natural hazards · Walls

Walls, MS natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Walls comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Walls?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Walls to be higher than in 39% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding29%Tornadoes22%Earthquakes17%Cold waves11%Heat waves10%Drought5%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Walls 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 27% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 20 years in the area

Earthquakes

17% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 22 times a year in the area

Drought

5% of expected damage

Recorded about 12 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Walls flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: DeSoto County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

12storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Walls

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Walls itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Walls.

Brought FEMA money into WallsDeclared for DeSoto County only

2026

Severe Winter Storm

335 households applied for aid $385K aid approved

2011

Flooding

2 households applied for aid

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Associated Flooding

18 households applied for aid

DeSoto County has had 11 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. Walls 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 Walls’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Walls. 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.