Natural hazards · Buckhead

Buckhead, GA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Buckhead?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Buckhead to be higher than in 95% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes65%Inland flooding22%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Buckhead faces

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

Hurricanes

65% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

DroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Buckhead flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bryan County.

Disasters that hit Buckhead

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BuckheadDeclared for Bryan County only

Bryan 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. Buckhead 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 Buckhead’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Buckhead. 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.