Is Avoyelles Parish, LA in a flood zone?
FEMA's National Risk Index puts Avoyelles Parish's flood hazard at the 44.5th percentile nationally — below the national norm for flood hazard — driven by inland rivers and flash flooding rather than the coast — FEMA's model puts a flood event here at about once every 1 years. County-wide, not parcel-specific: FEMA's real flood-zone map is queried live, never shipped as a download.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Avoyelles Parish
Avoyelles Parish is one of the counties where FEMA's own denominator for mandated flood-zone structures is missing, so no compliance rate is shown rather than a guessed one — the data quality guide covers how common this is. Across all residential structures in Avoyelles Parish, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 4.6% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
Where Avoyelles Parish ranks
Avoyelles Parish sits at rank 1805 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 1223 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). About 38,373 people live in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, spread over 831.363 square miles.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Avoyelles Parish
752 of Avoyelles Parish's 16,257 residential structures carry flood coverage of some kind, per FEMA's latest count — useful context, not a substitute for checking one parcel.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Avoyelles Parish's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Avoyelles Parish, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.