Floods in Mississippi

Property owners in Mississippi have filed 62,876 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $3.1 billion paid.

62,876flood insurance claims since 1978
$3.1Bpaid on those claims
2005most claims in one year, 19,754
8thamong the states for claims

2025

Floods on record, by year

Over time

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events

Oct 10, 2002	Flash Flood	Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette	3	$34,000
Apr 6, 2003	Flash Flood	Choctaw, Copiah, Covington	1	$270 million

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Mississippi

Harrison County	15,939
Jackson County	11,325
Hancock County	9,927
Hinds County	4,716
Warren County	2,690
Washington County	1,955
Forrest County	1,755
Wilkinson County	1,394
Lowndes County	1,186
Madison County	1,003
Bolivar County	994
Rankin County	978
Pearl River County	828
Marion County	685
Tunica County	449
Leflore County	443
Yazoo County	410
Lamar County	399
Humphreys County	343
Coahoma County	333
Grenada County	320
Lauderdale County	292
DeSoto County	280
Quitman County	253
Jones County	248
Simpson County	246
Sharkey County	238
Walthall County	233
Claiborne County	223
Sunflower County	191
Pike County	190
Adams County	187
Lee County	174
Monroe County	148
Issaquena County	127
Perry County	123
Clay County	121
Holmes County	117
Tallahatchie County	102
Panola County	87
Clarke County	80
Lincoln County	75
Covington County	71
George County	67
Alcorn County	67
Jefferson County	67
Stone County	55
Leake County	54
Wayne County	53
Greene County	45
Oktibbeha County	44
Lawrence County	43
Yalobusha County	39
Calhoun County	38
Tate County	38
Copiah County	37
Scott County	36
Lafayette County	31
Winston County	28
Attala County	26
Amite County	24
Webster County	24
Union County	19
Tishomingo County	18
Choctaw County	17
Carroll County	16
Noxubee County	15
Marshall County	13
Jasper County	13
Newton County	12
Franklin County	12
Smith County	11
Neshoba County	9
Tippah County	7
Jefferson Davis County	6
Itawamba County	3
Benton County	3
Pontotoc County	3
Chickasaw County	3
Prentiss County	2

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).