Climate Risk Atlas/LA/Cameron

Cameron Parish Coastal Flooding & Climate Risk Profile

The primary drivers of climate-related financial risk in Cameron, LA are Coastal Flooding, Hurricane, and Lightning.

City Risk Scorecard
Physical Resilience99/100

Based on FEMA EAL and hazard intensity.

Primary Regional Threats

Coastal Flooding

$3,578,894

County-wide Expected Annual Loss

84.6Score

Hurricane

$2,534,130

County-wide Expected Annual Loss

82.1Score

Lightning

$1,666,293

County-wide Expected Annual Loss

94.3Score

Geospatial Analysis

Use the interactive map below to visualize the climate risks in Cameron Parish. By toggling the hazard layers, you can overlay FEMA-defined flood zones and Natural Risks Index for 18 hazards. This spatial view allows you to identify which areas fall within the 100 and 500-year floodplains and assess how Coastal Flooding risks vary across the county.

Pro Tip

Hover over specific census tracts to see how structural risk scores fluctuate accross the county.

City Reports

CameronHackberry

Active ZIP Code Analysis

70645

Sources and Methodology

Spatial Climate Risk Modeling

The Expected Annual Loss (EAL) and hazard risk scores are derived from the FEMA NRI zip code dataset using a population-weighted spatial join. Because Zip Codes and Census Tracts do not share perfectly aligned boundaries, we utilize US Census Block Group population centroids to identify where residents actually live.

Financial & Insurance Metrics

The pysical resilence score is calculated by synthesizing Expected Annual Loss (EAL) against the total building replacement value within a jurisdiction. This creates a "Loss Ratio" that measures physical resilience. We supplement this with ZIP-code level data from the U.S. Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO), monitoring trends in premium growth, loss ratios, and policy non-renewals to identify emerging "Insurance Deserts."

Primary Data Sources