How much flood risk does Red River Parish actually carry?
Red River Parish lands at the 17.9th percentile of FEMA's National Risk Index for flooding, "Very Low" territory — among the lowest flood hazard in the country — with the 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. That's a county-wide figure, not a per-address one — FEMA's parcel maps are a live lookup, not a bulk file.
Mandatory flood insurance compliance in Red River Parish
Red River 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 Red River Parish, not just the ones FEMA mandates, 0.9% carry an NFIP policy — most flood damage nationally happens outside the mapped high-risk zone, so that broader number matters too.
How Red River Parish compares nationally
Red River Parish sits at rank 2618 of 3144 counties on FEMA's flood hazard scale (1 is worst) and rank 2641 of 3144 by population (1 is biggest). Red River Parish, Louisiana is home to about 7,238 people across 388.98 square miles of land.
What to do next if you own or are buying in Red River Parish
Across all of Red River Parish's 3,331 residential structures, 31 carry an NFIP policy today — a county-wide count that still can't tell you one address's own mapped zone.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly which FEMA and Census tables feed Red River Parish's numbers. See the data quality guide for why Red River Parish, like hundreds of other counties, doesn't get a clean compliance percentage.