Natural hazards · Southgate

Southgate, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Southgate comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 74 claims here since 1981.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Southgate?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Southgate to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes61%Inland flooding33%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Southgate faces

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

Hurricanes

61% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

33% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Ice 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 Southgate flood?

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

74paid claims since 1981

$3.8Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19812026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Debby: 24 claims, $2.8M
June South Florida Flooding: 5 claims, $255K
Torrential rain: 4 claims, $167K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sarasota County.

Disasters that hit Southgate

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SouthgateDeclared for Sarasota County only

Sarasota County has had 41 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Southgate

Southgate and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Southgatemostly hurricanesVery high

South Sarasotamostly hurricanesVery high

Sarasotamostly 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. Southgate covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Southgate’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Southgate. 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 Southgate total about $6.7M 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.