Webster Parish, Louisiana

What hazards hit Webster Parish most?

The most frequent records are severe thunderstorm wind events: 328 since 1955. The rank column places the county among Louisiana's counties by days with a record per 1,000 square miles of land over each hazard's complete period.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county and forecast-zone records attributed to the county; a zone record shows its own totals on each county it covers). Days: dates with at least one record of the hazard in the county. Ranks: days with a record per 1,000 square miles of land (Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer), since 1950 for tornadoes, 1955 for hail and thunderstorm wind, 1996 for the rest.

How many tornadoes has Webster Parish had?

NOAA records 60 tornadoes in Webster Parish from 1950 to 2024, the strongest rated F4, with 2 deaths and 15 injuries recorded in the county. That is 13th of 64 Louisiana counties and 146th of 3,080 U.S. counties by days with tornadoes per 1,000 square miles since 1950. A tornado that crossed a county line is counted in each county it touched, with the length of its path inside the county.

Counted as whole tornadoes rather than county records, the Storm Prediction Center's database holds 61 tornadoes whose track touched Webster Parish since 1950 (NOAA's county records number 60: they file a crossing tornado once per county segment, and the two databases differ on some tracks); along their whole tracks they killed 23 people, 2 of them in Webster Parish.

Map of the strongest tornado tracks in Louisiana.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, tornado records by county (path length in the county, maximum width); ratings as published: F scale before February 1, 2007, EF scale after. Whole-track figures: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database (1950-2025). SPC severe weather database.

When was the last damaging storm in Webster Parish?

The most recent record with damage, injuries or deaths is the July 8, 2024 tornado ($33,000 in damage in 2025 dollars).

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 105 mph touched down in the Old Shongaloo community south of Sand Hill Road, where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. A tree was downed onto a vehicle and a shed was damaged while tin was peeled off of an old barn. The tornado continued to the north-northwest and crossed Baker Road before crossing into Southern Columbia County Arkansas.
National Weather Service event narrative, NOAA Storm Events Database (search the full record, event 1205405)

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database; every record of 2025-2026 is listed, earlier ones when they caused deaths, injuries or $250,000 of damage (2025 dollars), and every tornado.

The deadliest and costliest records

A damage figure marked "step" is a record from before 1993: NOAA then filed damage by category, and the figure is the category as entered, in the dollars of that year, not an estimate of the loss.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: deaths and injuries direct and indirect; damage is property plus crops as estimated by the National Weather Service, converted to 2025 dollars.

Is it getting more frequent?

Records per decade for Webster Parish's most frequent hazards. Counts rose everywhere after 1996, when NOAA began recording every event type, so compare decades within a hazard's complete period only (the shaded cells come before it).

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records per calendar decade; zone records from the CZ_TYPE field (Z).

What time of year?

Records by month in Webster Parish. The two busiest months are in violet.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records by the month they began.

Federal disaster declarations for Webster Parish

FEMA's register lists 37 declarations that include Webster Parish: 21 major disasters, 16 emergencies and 0 fire management assistance declarations. Most were for hurricane (15) and severe storm (5).

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2), declarations through October 2, 2026; one declaration is counted once however many areas it names. OpenFEMA dataset page.

How many floods has Webster Parish had?

NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 67 flood or flash flood records for Webster Parish from 1996 to 2025, on 42 days, with 0 deaths. By flood insurance claims since 1978 (OpenFEMA, as of September 8, 2026), Webster Parish ranks 885th of 2,942 U.S. counties.

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $7.2 million on 223 claims filed in Webster Parish; the most in one year was 65 in 2016. Claims count insured losses only: uninsured flood damage is not in this file.

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims, as of September 8, 2026; claims by year of loss, payments in the dollars of the year paid. OpenFEMA dataset page.

FEMA's modeled risk for Webster Parish

FEMA's National Risk Index rates Webster Parish Relatively Low overall, with an expected annual loss of $17.8 million. These are FEMA's model estimates of future loss from 18 hazards, not a count of what happened; they can differ from the record above.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, county table, December 2025 release. FEMA's National Risk Index map.

Counties that share a border with Webster Parish

1. Bossier Parish 1,334
2. Webster Parish 910
3. Bienville Parish 673
4. Columbia County, AR 637
5. Claiborne Parish 599
6. Lafayette County, AR 599

Source: U.S. Census Bureau county adjacency file; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records since 1950. The Census Bureau's adjacency file.

Next

• Tornadoes in LouisianaEvery Louisiana tornado since 1950 and the counties with the most per square mile
• Severe thunderstorm wind in LouisianaThe state's severe thunderstorm wind events, by county, year and month
• The Louisiana recordEvery hazard in the state, its deadliest events and its federal declarations
• FEMA's risk rating for each hazard in Webster ParishThe hazard risk calculator: 18 hazards beside the county's record
• Download Webster Parish's FEMA declarations (CSV)37 rows: every declaration that named the county, for your own analysis