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Natural hazards · Hastings

Hastings, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hastings comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 9 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

How exposed is Hastings?

78
High
vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hastings to be higher than in 78% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding52%Hurricanes28%Tornadoes8%Everything else12%
By hazard

What Hastings faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

28% of expected damage
Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage
Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places
Recorded about once every 19 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

Ice 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 Hastings flood?

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

of all homes
are insured
No community discount. Hastings isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.
Insurance rates: St. Johns County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings retrofitted against wind
Disasters that hit Hastings

9 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into HastingsDeclared for St. Johns County only
2024

Hurricane Milton

322 households applied for aid $627K aid approved
2022

Hurricane Nicole

17 households applied for aid $21K aid approved
2022

Hurricane Ian

280 households applied for aid $250K aid approved
2017

Hurricane Irma

960 households applied for aid $1.3M aid approved
2016

Hurricane Matthew

154 households applied for aid $133K aid approved
2004

Hurricane Jeanne

153 households applied for aid $312K aid approved
2004

Hurricane Ivan

6 households applied for aid
2004

Hurricane Frances

311 households applied for aid $285K aid approved
2004

Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricane Charley

14 households applied for aid $8K aid approved
St. Johns County has had 25 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. Hastings 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 Hastings’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hastings. 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.

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