Levees / Mississippi / 5905000041

Yazoo Backwater-Yazoo River RB

Louise, Yazoo County, Mississippi. On the Yazoo River. USACE records 8,552 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

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People behind it
8,552
USACE figure
Structures
4,390
in the leveed area
Levee length
92.0
miles, plus 0.49 of floodwall
Leveed area
1868.64
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5905000041
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
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Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
08/29/2012
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
Board Of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, USACE - Vicksburg District
Waterway
Yazoo River
Segments
2
USACE district
Vicksburg
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
02, 05
Consequence estimate
$2.82 billion
Flood of record
Not published

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 5905000041. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.