Mississippi

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$511.0B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

57.86

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 82 counties

Heat Wave

72.87 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

68.66 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

68.2 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

68.2 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

63.18 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

62.05 Avg Risk Score

Hail

58.01 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

54.72 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 56 events

$122.2B

tropical-cyclone 15 events

$269.0B

drought 11 events

$72.7B

winter-storm 6 events

$31.1B

flooding 5 events

$12.9B

freeze 2 events

$3.0B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Harrison	97.2	Relatively High	91.8%
2	Jackson	95.99	Relatively High	82.9%
3	Hinds	92.55	Relatively Moderate	91.5%
4	DeSoto	90.84	Relatively Moderate	35.6%
5	Pearl River	90.01	Relatively Moderate	69.1%
6	Hancock	88.07	Relatively Moderate	47.8%
7	Jones	87.15	Relatively Moderate	79.1%
8	George	87.05	Relatively Moderate	83.8%
9	Forrest	86.54	Relatively Moderate	95.0%
10	Lauderdale	85.68	Relatively Moderate	95.9%