Natural hazards · Braswell

Braswell, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Braswell 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 Braswell?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Braswell to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes27%Cold waves12%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Braswell faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 31 years in the area

Cold waves

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Braswell flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Paulding County.

Disasters that hit Braswell

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BraswellDeclared for Paulding County only

Paulding County has had 15 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. Braswell 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 Braswell’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Braswell. 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.