Natural hazards · Hueytown

Hueytown, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hueytown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 108 claims here since 1979. 11 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Hueytown?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hueytown to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding55%Tornadoes20%Cold waves9%Earthquakes7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Hueytown faces

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

Inland flooding

55% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 75% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Hueytown flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Hueytown, from FEMA’s records.

108paid claims since 1979

$1.3Mpaid to owners

17homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ivan: 2 claims, $11K
Early winter storms: 2 claims, $12K
Mid-spring storms: 1 claim, $8K

Homes that flooded again and again

■ FEMA “severe repetitive loss” (1) ■ flooded 2+ times

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jefferson County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

36storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Hueytown

11 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Hueytown itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Hueytown.

Brought FEMA money into HueytownDeclared for Jefferson County only

2021

Severe Storms and Flooding

1 household applied for aid $3K aid approved

2021

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes

3 households applied for aid

2014

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

4 households applied for aid

2012

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

2 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

2011

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding

145 households applied for aid $114K aid approved $78K to the City of Hueytown for repairs

2009

Severe Storms, Flooding, Tornadoes, and Straight-Line Winds

$7K to the City of Hueytown for repairs

2005

Hurricane Katrina

$42K to the City of Hueytown for repairs

2005

Hurricane Dennis

$12K to the City of Hueytown for repairs

2004

Hurricane Ivan

37 households applied for aid $29K aid approved $19K to the City of Hueytown for repairs

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

9 households applied for aid $18K aid approved

2001

Severe Storms and Flooding

$32K to the City of Hueytown for repairs

Jefferson County has had 36 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and hurricanes.

Around Hueytown

Hueytown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hueytownmostly inland floodingHigh

Pleasant Grovemostly inland floodingHigh

Birminghammostly inland floodingHigh

Bessemermostly inland floodingModerate

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. Hueytown covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Hueytown total about $6.1M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.