Natural hazards · Fairview Shores

Fairview Shores, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fairview Shores comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 32 claims here since 1994. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fairview Shores?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fairview Shores to be higher than in 33% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding40%Hurricanes24%Tornadoes12%Cold waves11%Strong wind9%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Fairview Shores faces

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

Inland flooding

40% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Hurricanes

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 86% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Strong wind

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HailHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fairview Shores flood?

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

32paid claims since 1994

$1.4Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19942026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ian: 20 claims, $1.2M
Hurricane Irma: 4 claims, $77K
Hurricane Milton: 3 claims, $152K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Orange County.

Disasters that hit Fairview Shores

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Fairview Shores itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Fairview Shores.

Brought FEMA money into Fairview ShoresDeclared for Orange County only

2017

Hurricane Irma

5 households applied for aid $500 aid approved

Orange County has had 30 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

Around Fairview Shores

Fairview Shores and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lockhartmostly inland floodingModerate

Orlandomostly inland floodingModerate

Winter Parkmostly inland floodingModerate

Fairview Shoresmostly inland floodingLow

Eatonvillemostly inland floodingLow

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. Fairview Shores covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fairview Shores’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fairview Shores. 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 Fairview Shores total about $4.2M 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.