Photo: WhisperToMe · Public domainStorms, floods and disasters in Weir
Weir isn’t graded for hazard risk: Weir has 704 residents; we grade towns of 1,000 or more.
What Weir 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
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
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 Weir flood? No paid flood claims on record
FEMA’s records show no paid flood insurance claims in Weir. That’s not a promise: most homes don’t carry flood insurance, so small floods go unrecorded.
Weir isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: Choctaw County.4 federal disasters brought FEMA money to Weir
Disasters that paid out in Weir itself (aid to households or repair grants to the Town of Weir), newest first, with that year’s flood claims.
- 2026Severe Winter Storm2 households applied for aid$18K aid approved
- 2011Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Associated Flooding15 households applied for aid$6K aid approved
- 2010Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding120 households applied for aid$463K aid approved
- 2005Hurricane Katrina97 households applied for aid$60K aid approved
Choctaw County has had 16 natural disasters declared by the President since 1953, most often severe storms, then hurricanes and tropical storms.
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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.
- Drop, cover and hold on.
- Strap tall furniture and the water heater to the wall.
- Know how to shut off the gas.
- 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.
- 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 Weir
Is Weir 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 Choctaw County, 11% of homes in mapped flood zones carry federal flood insurance, and 0.4% of all homes do.
How much is flood insurance in Weir?
FEMA’s Community Rating System list shows no discount for Weir’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 Weir?
By FEMA money that reached Weir, Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding (2010): 120 households applied for aid, $463K approved.
Storm stories
Memories, warnings and help from neighbors in Weir.
Sources: FEMA National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), census-tract table, combined by where Weir’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.