Storms, floods and disasters in Collinston
Collinston isn’t graded for hazard risk: Collinston has 347 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Collinston faces
Each hazard’s share of the building damage FEMA expects here, and how its rate compares with the rest of the country.
River and rain flooding
Tornadoes
Hail
Earthquakes
Shares are of FEMA’s expected building damage, the measure the grade uses; ranks compare each hazard’s building-damage rate with all 85,154 U.S. census tracts. In FEMA’s terms, river and rain flooding is FEMA’s “Inland Flooding” (rivers and streams overflowing their banks, or rain overwhelming drainage). FEMA defines coastal flooding as high or rising tides and storm surge, so surge damage is counted there. Drought isn’t listed: FEMA counts its losses in crops only.
Does Collinston flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Collinston. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Collinston isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Morehouse Parish.4 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Collinston
Disasters that paid out in Collinston itself (aid to households or repair grants to the Village of Collinston), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2020Hurricane Laura58 households applied for aid$42K aid approved
- 2016Severe Storms and Flooding83 households applied for aid$137K aid approved
- 2012Hurricane Isaac4 households applied for aid$1K aid approved
- 2008Hurricane Gustav19 households applied for aid$19K aid approved
Morehouse Parish has had 24 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often hurricanes and tropical storms, then floods.
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A short kit for the hazards that drive the building damage here, what to check before you buy, and where neighbors get alerts.
- Turn around at flooded roads: a foot of moving water can carry off a car.
- Flood insurance usually takes 30 days to start, so buy it before the forecast.
- Keep papers and medicines up high, in a grab-and-go bag.
- Pick your spot now: the lowest floor, an inside room, no windows.
- A watch means be ready; a warning means take cover now.
- Keep shoes and a flashlight by the bed.
- Park in a garage or under cover when storms are forecast.
- Stay away from windows while it falls.
- Photograph roof and car damage for your insurer.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap tall furniture and the water heater to the wall.
- Know how to shut off the gas.
- Look up the address on FEMA’s flood map.
- Ask the seller or landlord whether it has ever flooded, and what flood insurance costs there.
- Get a flood insurance quote early: policies usually start 30 days after you buy.
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Questions about natural hazards in Collinston
Is Collinston in a flood zone?
Flood zones are drawn street by street, so the answer depends on the address: look it up on FEMA’s flood map. In Morehouse Parish, 14% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 1.4% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Collinston?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Collinston’s flood program. Premiums depend on the building; policies usually start 30 days after you buy, so get a quote early.
What was the biggest storm in Collinston?
By FEMA money that reached Collinston, Severe Storms and Flooding (2016): 83 households applied for aid, $137K approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Collinston.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Collinston’s residents lived in the 2020 census; OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. Preparedness tips: Ready.gov. FEMA’s model is an average of expected damage, not a forecast. How hazard risk is graded.