Natural hazards · Wedowee

Wedowee, AL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wedowee comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Wedowee?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Wedowee to be higher than in 56% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding55%Tornadoes22%Cold waves6%Hurricanes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Wedowee 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

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 9 years in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Wedowee flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Randolph County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

6storm safe rooms built

Disasters that hit Wedowee

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into WedoweeDeclared for Randolph County only

2021

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes

3 households applied for aid $8K aid approved

2004

Hurricane Ivan

2 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

2003

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding

15 households applied for aid $16K aid approved

Randolph County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

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. Wedowee 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 Wedowee’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Wedowee. 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.