Jackson County, Mississippi: hazard history

FEMA declared 36 disasters that named Jackson County between 1965 and 2026.

Most recent declarations

• DR-4899 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• EM-3640 2026 · Winter Storm · Severe Winter Storm
• DR-4727 2023 · Severe Storm · Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, And Tornadoes.
• EM-3569 2021 · Hurricane · Hurricane Ida
• DR-4626 2021 · Hurricane · Hurricane Ida
• DR-4576 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Zeta
• EM-3550 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Zeta
• EM-3548 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Delta
• EM-3544 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Sally
• EM-3539 2020 · Hurricane · Hurricane Marco And Tropical Storm Laura

Not counted above: 4 statewide declarations, which covered every county in Mississippi. 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 Jackson County each year. The busiest year was 2023, with 61 records.

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

Costliest records

1. Storm Surge/Tide · Aug 29, 2005$2.3B
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 5475658
2. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Aug 28, 2005$1.1B
   NOAA name: JACKSON · 13 deaths · NOAA record 5475641
3. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Sep 27, 1998$370.0M
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 5670296
4. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Oct 28, 2020$10.0M
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 926249
5. Tropical Storm · Sep 25, 2002$6.3M
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 5320812

Deadliest records

1. Hurricane (Typhoon) · Aug 28, 200513 deaths
   NOAA name: JACKSON · $1.1B damage · NOAA record 5475641
2. Heat · Jul 8, 20001 death
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 5173756
3. Heat · Jul 18, 20001 death
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 5173757
4. Excessive Heat · Aug 2, 20101 death
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 253896
5. Lightning · Jul 31, 20111 death
   NOAA name: JACKSON · NOAA record 322251

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 $705.9M on 11,315 claims in Jackson County 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 Jackson County — 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 Jackson County 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 Mississippi yet; when they are, this page will count by code instead, and some counties' records will grow. NOAA names counted here: JACKSON, NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY, SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY. Zones named for something else, such as a mountain range or two counties at once, are left out: 0% of Mississippi's NOAA records.
• Counts last rebuilt from the source records on Sep 15, 2026.