Natural hazards · Box Springs

Box Springs, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Box Springs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Box Springs?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Box Springs to be higher than in 29% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes14%Drought10%Lightning6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Box Springs 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

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Drought

10% of expected damage

Recorded about 52 times a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong wind

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Box Springs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Talbot County.

Disasters that hit Box Springs

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Box SpringsDeclared for Talbot County only

Talbot County has had 13 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Box Springs

Box Springs and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Box Springsmostly inland floodingLow

Columbusmostly inland floodingLow

Cusseta-Chattahoochee County unified governmentmostly 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. Box Springs 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 Box Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Box Springs. 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.