Lincoln Parish, Louisiana: hazard history

FEMA declared 35 disasters that named Lincoln Parish between 1977 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• EM-3638 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4900 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3614 2024 · Hurricane · Tropical Storm Francine
• EM-3574 2021 · Coastal Storm · Tropical Storm Nicholas
• DR-4611 2021 · Hurricane · Hurricane Ida
• EM-3568 2021 · Hurricane · Tropical Storm Ida
• 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-4570 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Delta

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. A storm filed against a forecast zone is counted in every county that zone covers, with the whole storm's damage; do not add these figures across counties.

NOAA storm event records in Lincoln Parish each year. The busiest year was 2008, with 35 records.

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

Costliest records

1. Tornado · Apr 25, 2019$50.0M
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · 2 deaths · 2 injuries · NOAA record 815582
2. Flash Flood · Mar 8, 2016$10.0M
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · NOAA record 621144
3. Tornado · Nov 30, 1996$2.0M
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · 2 deaths · 9 injuries · NOAA record 5581130
4. Tornado · Apr 14, 2018$1.4M
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · NOAA record 744147
5. Thunderstorm Wind · Dec 21, 2013$1.3M
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · NOAA record 483705

Deadliest records

1. Tornado · Nov 30, 19962 deaths
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · $2.0M damage · 9 injuries · NOAA record 5581130
2. Heat · Jul 18, 20002 deaths
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 5152841
3. Tornado · Apr 25, 20192 deaths
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · $50.0M damage · 2 injuries · NOAA record 815582
4. Winter Storm · Jan 9, 20111 death
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 267222
5. Flash Flood · May 18, 20151 death
   NOAA name: Lincoln Parish · $10K damage · 2 injuries · NOAA record 567153

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 $587K on 54 claims in Lincoln Parish from 1979 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 Lincoln 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 against a county and others against an NWS forecast zone, and publishes a code for both. Records are counted as Lincoln Parish by that code — county records by the county's own FIPS code, zone records through the National Weather Service's published list of which counties each zone covers. No name matching is involved. Of 495 records, 324 were filed against this county and 171 against a forecast zone covering it. A zone storm is counted in every county its zone covers, and its damage figure is the whole storm's, not this county's share — NOAA does not publish that split. So these figures describe this county; they must not be added up across counties. Left out: 5% of Louisiana's NOAA records, which are marine zones or zones NWS does not map to a county.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.