Climate in Gonzales
Gonzales's climate is hot and humid, and its hazard profile is genuinely two-sided: moderate direct hurricane exposure alongside a real, documented 2016 non-hurricane flood event.
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Learn moreA hot, humid subtropical climate
Gonzales shares Louisiana's genuine humid subtropical summer heat, common statewide across this project's Louisiana research.
A real, moderate hurricane exposure
Sitting roughly 65 miles inland as part of the Baton Rouge metro, Gonzales carries a genuinely more moderate direct hurricane exposure than Louisiana's coastal parishes, though it remains subject to the state's broader hurricane wind and rain risk.
A real, documented 2016 flood event
The National Weather Service-designated '1,000-year' August 2016 rainfall event overtopped a levee along the Amite River and flooded an estimated nearly one-third of Ascension Parish homes -- a real, historic, non-hurricane flood event this record discloses directly.
Key takeaways
- Gonzales shares Louisiana's hot, humid subtropical climate.
- Direct hurricane exposure runs genuinely more moderate than Louisiana's coastal parishes given Gonzales's inland position.
- A real, historic, non-hurricane flood event (August 2016) affected a substantial share of Ascension Parish homes.
- Confirm current, address-specific FEMA flood-zone status directly given this real flood history.
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