Cameron Parish, LA Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Cameron Parish's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1957, NOAA has logged 67 tornado tracks crossing Cameron Parish - one about every 1.1 years, which lands it in our High band. Nationally, Cameron Parish ranks at the 94th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 64 Louisiana counties in this dataset, Cameron Parish ranks 11 for how often a tornado touches down.
Cameron Parish's EF4-5 history
Cameron Parish's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 67 tracks split 58 weak and 7 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Cameron Parish
For a Cameron Parish homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Louisiana-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
A direct hit is not required for Cameron Parish to lose power - outbreak-wide outages across Louisiana regularly reach homes and businesses well outside the actual tracks. A battery bank covers that gap without a generator's fuel and venting needs.
Check your coverage, not just your risk
Because Louisiana allows wind/hail exclusions on standard homeowners policies, a Cameron Parish homeowner should confirm tornado wind damage is actually covered, not assume it - a separate endorsement is common here.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Cameron Parish covers about 1,285 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Cameron Parish has about 4,678 residents.