Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: hazard history

FEMA declared 42 disasters that named Calcasieu Parish between 1971 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3638 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3614 2024 · Hurricane · Tropical Storm Francine
• EM-3574 2021 · Coastal Storm · Tropical Storm Nicholas
• EM-3568 2021 · Hurricane · Tropical Storm Ida
• DR-4611 2021 · Hurricane · Hurricane Ida
• DR-4606 2021 · Flood · Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
• DR-4590 2021 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storms
• EM-3556 2021 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3549 2020 · Hurricane · Tropical Storm Zeta
• DR-4577 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Zeta

Not counted above: 7 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Louisiana. A declaration is a decision to send federal help, not a measure of how bad an event was. Records run from 1953. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries.

Records start in 1996. Damage is NOAA's estimate at the time, in nominal dollars, and is often rounded; it is not insurance claims data. A storm that crossed two NOAA zones in this county is recorded, and counted, once per zone.

NOAA storm event records in Calcasieu Parish each year. The busiest year was 2009, with 63 records.

Years with no record are left out of the table, not shown as zero.

Costliest records

1. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Aug 26, 2020$6.0B
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · 13 deaths · NOAA record 917518
2. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Sep 23, 2005$1.0B
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · 1 death · NOAA record 5475131
3. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Oct 9, 2020$1.0B
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · NOAA record 925830
4. Flash Flood · May 17, 2021$500.0M
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · 1 death · NOAA record 960716
5. Storm Surge/Tide · Sep 12, 2008$150.0M
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · NOAA record 136876

Deadliest records

1. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Aug 26, 202013 deaths
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · $6.0B damage · NOAA record 917518
2. Tropical Storm · Sep 1, 20082 deaths
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · $1.5M damage · NOAA record 136827
3. Thunderstorm Wind · Jul 20, 20122 deaths
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · NOAA record 402421
4. Thunderstorm Wind · Jul 20, 20122 deaths
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · NOAA record 402422
5. Lightning · Dec 29, 19961 death
   NOAA name: CALCASIEU · $50K damage · 2 injuries · NOAA record 5576783

Each line is one NOAA record, linked to its page at NOAA. One large storm can appear more than once if NOAA recorded it in several zones of this county. Dollars are nominal.

The National Flood Insurance Program paid $321.4M on 10,381 claims in Calcasieu Parish from 1978 to 2024.

A count of claims, not a rate: NFIP publishes no count of insured homes beside it, and most flood damage is uninsured. Nominal dollars. Records run from 1978 to 2024; claims filed without a county code are not on any county page. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

A hazard vulnerability analysis rates each hazard for probability, impact, preparedness and response. Probability is the one column the county’s federal record can fill — NCEI storm events from 1996 to 2026 and FEMA declarations naming the county — and this is what it says for a facility here, on the 0–3 scale of the all-hazards structure surveyors expect. The other six columns are the facility’s own judgment about its building, and Calchis leaves them blank.

A dash means the record does not speak to that hazard; it is not a zero. Whether a finished document satisfies the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule is the facility’s finding and its surveyor’s. Complete the HVA for a facility in Calcasieu Parish — the technological, human and hazardous-materials rows, the six facility columns, the approval and the printed document — or read the sample analysis on that page first.

• Every figure is counted from public federal records held by Calchis: NOAA NCEI Storm Events, FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations, and FEMA NFIP claims. Nothing is modeled or estimated.
• NOAA files some events by county and others by forecast zone, and names both. Records are counted as Calcasieu Parish when their NOAA name is this county's name, alone or with a word like “Coastal” or “Inland” in front. The county codes NOAA also publishes have not been loaded for Louisiana yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: CALCASIEU, NORTHERN CALCASIEU PARISH, SOUTHERN CALCASIEU PARISH. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 0% of Louisiana's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.