Red River Parish, Louisiana: hazard history

FEMA declared 32 disasters that named Red River Parish between 1977 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• DR-4900 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• 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-4590 2021 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storms
• EM-3556 2021 · Severe Ice Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3549 2020 · Hurricane · Tropical Storm Zeta
• EM-3547 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 Red River Parish each year. The busiest year was 2023, with 36 records.

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

Costliest records

1. Thunderstorm Wind · Feb 10, 1998$6.0M
   NOAA name: Red River Parish · NOAA record 5634543
2. Flood · Oct 15, 2009$1.0M
   NOAA name: Red River Parish · NOAA record 198978
3. Tornado · Apr 23, 2000$500K
   NOAA name: Red River Parish · NOAA record 5139558
4. Wildfire · Oct 15, 2015$400K
   NOAA name: NWS forecast zone · NOAA record 601053
5. Tornado · Apr 6, 2018$225K
   NOAA name: Red River Parish · NOAA record 742858

Deadliest records

1. Thunderstorm Wind · May 28, 20171 death
   NOAA name: Red River Parish · 1 injury · NOAA record 691698

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 $382K on 16 claims in Red River Parish from 1990 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 Red River 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 Red River 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 385 records, 213 were filed against this county and 172 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.