Natural hazards · Williston Highlands

Williston Highlands, FL natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Williston Highlands comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Williston Highlands?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Williston Highlands to be higher than in 72% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes43%Inland flooding24%Cold waves11%Tornadoes8%Lightning6%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Williston Highlands faces

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

Hurricanes

43% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

24% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 51% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Cold waves

11% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 43 years in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windDrought

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Williston Highlands flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Levy County.

Disasters that hit Williston Highlands

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Williston HighlandsDeclared for Levy County only

Levy County has had 38 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. Williston Highlands 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 Williston Highlands’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Williston Highlands. 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.