Natural hazards · Avondale Estates

Avondale Estates, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Avondale Estates comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2015. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Avondale Estates?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Avondale Estates to be higher than in 14% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding58%Earthquakes12%Tornadoes11%Cold waves6%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Avondale Estates faces

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

Inland flooding

58% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Avondale Estates flood?

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

1paid claims since 2015

$42Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20152026

Biggest named events

Early winter storms: 1 claim, $42K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: DeKalb County.

Disasters that hit Avondale Estates

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Avondale Estates itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Avondale Estates.

Brought FEMA money into Avondale EstatesDeclared for DeKalb County only

2017

Hurricane Irma

$55K to the City of Avondale Estates for repairs

2009

Severe Storms and Flooding

25 households applied for aid $25K aid approved

2004

Hurricane Ivan

1 household applied for aid $10K to the City of Avondale Estates for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Storm

$39K to the City of Avondale Estates for repairs

DeKalb County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Avondale Estates

Avondale Estates and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Belvedere Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Decaturmostly inland floodingLow

Scottdalemostly inland floodingVery low

Avondale Estatesmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Avondale Estates covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Avondale Estates’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Avondale Estates. 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 Avondale Estates total about $464K 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.