20 flood insurance claims·$101,000 paid·11 federal flood & hurricane disasters
Share of the whole county outline, rivers and lakes included; parts FEMA hasn’t mapped count as zero.
Shaded areas are FEMA’s mapped flood hazard zones in and around Jackson Parish, Louisiana. Zoomed out they are simplified; at street level the map switches to FEMA’s exact layer. Tap anywhere to check that spot, or search an address above.
Flash flooding from severe weather events dominates the flood risk profile in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, accounting for 20 recorded storm events over the last 30 years, alongside 4 tropical storms and 1 hurricane event that resulted in 1 fatality.
Severe weather impacts are illustrated by recent events, including robust thunderstorm development that caused flash flooding across North Louisiana on March 15, 2025, and a vigorous upper-level trough that brought rich moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent flash flooding on January 2, 2023. Additionally, Major Hurricane Laura tracked north through Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on August 27, 2020.
NFIP claims data demonstrates that flood impacts extend across multiple zones. Zone A recorded 9 claims with an average payout of $8,644 and an average recorded water depth of 2 inches. Unshaded Zone X recorded 5 claims with an average payout of $3,768 and an average recorded water depth of 3 inches, while unknown zones recorded 4 claims with an average payout of $4,847 and an average recorded water depth of 12 inches. Standard Zone X recorded 2 claims averaging $2,238 with an average recorded water depth of 0 inches. Homeowners in Zone A, unshaded Zone X, and unmapped or unknown zones should pay the closest attention to flood risk, as these areas have documented insurance claims and water depths.
Summary written from NOAA storm reports and NFIP claims for this county. Not a prediction.
In flood insurance claims here that reported a flood depth, the average was 5 inches.
Drawn to scale against an 80-inch door. Even a few inches soaks flooring, the bottom of the drywall and anything plugged in near the floor.
Average of the depths reported on claims (zero and implausible values left out); FEMA’s record doesn’t say exactly where each depth was measured. Source: OpenFEMA NFIP claims.
The worst year was 1983, with 5 claims and $10,007 paid.
Bar height is scaled by square root so ordinary years stay visible next to the worst one. NFIP claims by year of loss. Source: OpenFEMA.
12 NOAA storm reports from Jackson Parish describe what happened, in the words of the forecasters who covered it. Read the Louisiana flood stories →
27 federal disaster declarations since 1989, 11 of them floods, coastal storms or hurricanes.
| Disaster | Began |
|---|---|
| Severe Winter Storm | Jan 23, 2026 |
| Tropical Storm Francine | Sep 10, 2024 |
| Tropical Storm Nicholas | Sep 12, 2021 |
| Hurricane Ida | Aug 26, 2021 |
| Tropical Storm Ida | Aug 26, 2021 |
| Severe Winter Storm | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Severe Winter Storms | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Tropical Storm Zeta | Oct 26, 2020 |
Weather and water disasters only; most recent first. Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations.
25 since 1996: 20 flash floods.
| Event | Date | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | Mar 15, 2025 | — |
| Flash Flood | Jan 2, 2023 | — |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | Aug 27, 2020 | — · 1 killed |
| Tropical Storm | Oct 9, 2020 | — |
| Flash Flood | Feb 22, 2018 | — |
| Flash Flood | Mar 9, 2016 | — |
| Flash Flood | Mar 8, 2016 | $560,000 |
| Flash Flood | Apr 6, 2014 | — |
— = no damage estimate in the record. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Flash Flood · Mar 15, 2025. Robust thunderstorm development began late in the evening on March 14th through the morning hours on March 15th along a dryline from the Hot Springs region southward toward Texarkana and into much of North Louisiana. Upper air analysis suggested that low to mid-level winds were not quite as strong as compared to areas farther to the north. However, a strengthening low-level jet sampled by the KSHV (Shreveport, Lou…
Flash Flood · Jan 2, 2023. A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd. In advance of this trough, rich low level moisture quickly spread northward from the Gulf of Mexico across East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southern Arkansas, along a strong southerly low level jet that de…
Hurricane (Typhoon) · Aug 27, 2020. Major Hurricane Laura tracked north northwest across the Central and Northern Gulf of Mexico from the Central Carribean Sea near Cuba, making landfall in Southwest Louisiana near Cameron around 1 am on August 27th as a strong Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 938 mb. Laura remained a hurricane as it tracked north across Southwest and Central Louisiana…
Tropical Storm · Oct 9, 2020. Hurricane Delta tracked north northwest across the Western Carribean Sea as a major hurricane, having rapidly strengthened from a tropical depression to a Category 4 hurricane in just over 36 hours, the fastest intensification rate on record. Delta made its first landfall across the Yucatan Peninsula near Cancun on October 7th, before tracking north and making a second landfall near Creole, Louisiana in Cameron Pa…
National Weather Service narratives, lightly trimmed. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Every colour on the map above is a place on this drawing: where the ground sits relative to the flood FEMA plans for.
If a building in Jackson Parish is in a high-risk zone (A or V) and its mortgage comes from a federally regulated or insured lender, or is federally backed, flood insurance is required.
Outside those zones it is optional, and often worth having: from 2014 to 2024 nearly one-third of NFIP claims came from outside the high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area. Since Risk Rating 2.0, NFIP premiums are set for each building, so the only reliable price is a quote: FloodSmart.gov or a local agent.