Storms, floods and disasters in Longville
Longville isn’t graded for hazard risk: Longville has 454 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Longville 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
Hurricanes
Wildfire
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 Longville flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Longville. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Longville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Beauregard Parish.7 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Longville
Disasters that paid out in Longville itself (aid to households or repair grants to Longville), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2020Hurricane Delta81 households applied for aid$80K aid approved
- 2020Hurricane Laura820 households applied for aid$1.3M aid approved
- 2016Severe Storms and Flooding2 households applied for aid$5K aid approved
- 2008Hurricane Ike102 households applied for aid$23K aid approved
- 2008Hurricane Gustav88 households applied for aid$8K aid approved
- 2006Severe Storms and Flooding1 households applied for aid$1K aid approved
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- 2005Hurricane Rita871 households applied for aid$1.7M aid approved
Beauregard Parish has had 30 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often hurricanes and tropical storms, then floods.
Also 2 FEMA wildfire suppression grants (Fire Management Assistance, not a disaster declaration) for fires in Beauregard Parish, 2000–2023.
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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.
- The season runs June through November and peaks from mid-August to mid-October.
- Bring in porch furniture and anything the wind can throw.
- Fill the gas tank and charge phones before the storm arrives.
- Clear dead leaves and brush within 5 feet of the house.
- Sign up for local alerts and know two ways out.
- Keep N95 masks for smoky days.
- 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.
Know where neighbors sign up for alerts? Add it to the Handbook so everyone has it.
Questions about natural hazards in Longville
Is Longville 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 Beauregard Parish, 24% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 1.9% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Longville?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Longville’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 Longville?
By FEMA money that reached Longville, Hurricane Rita (2005): 871 households applied for aid, $1.7M approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Longville.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Longville’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.