PEARL, Miss. (MEMA) – The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), along with state and local officials, faith-based organizations, volunteers, and private sector partners, continues to respond to the severe weather that struck the state on April 2 through April 6, 2025.
MEMA teams continue to assist counties with ongoing damage assessments. To date, the agency has recorded damage to 332 homes, 15 businesses, and 15 farms across 22 counties. Of the homes affected, 50 were destroyed, while 57 sustained major damage. These figures are subject to change as further evaluations are conducted.
The shelter in Marshall County will close today, April 8th, 2025. The American Red Cross will continue to feed survivors at Slayden Baptist Church (2535 Highway 72) and Hudsonville C.M.E. (778 Slayden Road) in Marshall County. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief continues to help remove debris on private property in impacted counties.
The following 22 counties have submitted official damage reports to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. Damages reported range from affected to destroyed. These numbers can change through the assessment process.
- Alcorn – 9 homes
- Benton – 16 homes
- Bolivar – 1 home, 1 business
- Desoto – 12 homes
- Forrest – 32 homes, 4 businesses
- Hinds – 6 homes
- Jackson – damage assessments ongoing
- Jasper – 29 homes, 4 farms, 1 death
- Kemper – 2 homes, 1 farm, 1 business
- Lafayette – 17 homes
- Lowndes – damage assessments ongoing
- Marshall – 100 homes, 2 businesses, 1 injured
- Pontotoc – 24 homes, 1 business, 5 farms, 1 injured
- Prentiss - damage assessments ongoing
- Smith – 11 homes
- Sunflower – 4 homes, 1 business
- Tallahatchie – 6 homes
- Tate – 49 homes, 1 farm, 2 injured
- Tippah – 14 homes, 2 farms, 3 injured
- Tunica – 2 farms
- Union – 5 farms
- Quitman - damage assessments ongoing
MEMA encourages residents who’ve sustained damage from this severe weather event to do the following:
- File an insurance claim.
- Take photos of the damage to the home.
- Report damage to their county/MEMA via the self-report tool.
If citizens have immediate, unmet needs, they are encouraged to contact their county emergency management agency. A list of those county contacts can be found here.
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