Natural hazards · Feather Sound

Feather Sound, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Feather Sound comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Feather Sound?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Feather Sound to be higher than in 55% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes40%Inland flooding24%Coastal flooding18%Tornadoes8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Feather Sound faces

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

Hurricanes

40% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 90% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Coastal flooding

18% of expected damage

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

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 86 years in the area

Lower here

HailCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Ice stormsWinter weatherLandslidesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Feather Sound flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Pinellas County.

Disasters that hit Feather Sound

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Feather SoundDeclared for Pinellas County only

2017

Hurricane Irma

1 household applied for aid

Pinellas County has had 39 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Feather Sound

Feather Sound and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Feather Soundmostly hurricanesModerate

St. Petersburgmostly hurricanesModerate

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. Feather Sound 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 Feather Sound’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Feather Sound. 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.