Natural hazards · Brent

Brent, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brent comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 99 claims here since 1978.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brent?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brent to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes.

Hurricanes74%Inland flooding15%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Brent faces

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

Hurricanes

74% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

15% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 16% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Brent flood?

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

99paid claims since 1978

$7.5Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19782026

Biggest named events

Mid-spring storms: 27 claims, $3.8M
Hurricane Sally: 22 claims, $1.4M
Severe Storms and Flooding: 9 claims, $75K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Escambia County.

Disasters that hit Brent

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrentDeclared for Escambia County only

Escambia County has had 33 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Brent

Brent and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Bellviewmostly hurricanesVery high

Pensacolamostly hurricanesVery high

West Pensacolamostly hurricanesVery high

Ferry Passmostly hurricanesVery high

Brentmostly hurricanesVery high

Ensleymostly hurricanesVery high

Gouldingmostly hurricanesVery high

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. Brent covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Brent’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brent. 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 Brent total about $9.7M 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.