Natural hazards · Egypt

Egypt, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Egypt comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Egypt?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Egypt to be higher than in 63% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes41%Inland flooding37%Cold waves7%Strong wind7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Egypt faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Tornadoes

41% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 28 years in the area

Inland flooding

37% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 79% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Egypt flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Egypt.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Egypt isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Etowah County.

Disasters that hit Egypt

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Etowah County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Egypt itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into EgyptDeclared for Etowah County only

Etowah County has had 27 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Egypt

Egypt and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Ivaleemostly inland floodingVery high

Egyptmostly tornadoesHigh

Carlisle-Rockledgemostly tornadoesHigh

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Egypt is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Egypt’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Egypt. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.