Sinkhole risk in Lafayette Parish, LA: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock: 0%
At or near the surface: 0%
Buried under cover: 0%

What this means before you buy

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 269 square miles, under one square mile of Lafayette Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 254,241 residents (946 per square mile), most of the county is built up, so a mapped unit is likely to sit under somebody's street. The figures come from 519 map points about 0.7 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Two things to read before deciding: why gypsum and salt move faster than limestone, and how these percentages are measured.

Counties around Lafayette Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 287 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Acadia Parish, LA 22 mi west · 0% at surface
St. Landry Parish, LA 26 mi north · 0% at surface
St. Martin Parish, LA 28 mi east · 0% at surface
Vermilion Parish, LA 32 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Evangeline Parish, LA 41 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Iberville Parish, LA 42 mi east · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

Lafayette Parish ranks 28 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.