Natural hazards · Fort Green

Fort Green, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Fort Green comes from strong winds, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2022.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Fort Green?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Fort Green to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from strong winds and hurricanes.

Strong wind41%Hurricanes34%Inland flooding10%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Fort Green faces

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

Strong wind

41% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

34% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

10% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 36% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Fort Green flood?

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

1paid claims since 2022

$57Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20222026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Ian: 1 claim, $57K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hardee County.

Disasters that hit Fort Green

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Fort GreenDeclared for Hardee County only

Hardee County has had 29 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. Fort Green covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Fort Green’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Fort Green. 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 Fort Green total about $1.6M 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.