Natural hazards · Gresham Park

Gresham Park, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Gresham Park comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2004.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Gresham Park?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Gresham Park to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Tornadoes10%Earthquakes7%Cold waves7%Everything else14%

By hazard

What Gresham Park faces

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

Inland flooding

62% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Cold waves

7% 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 Gresham Park flood?

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

3paid claims since 2004

$15Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20042026

Biggest named events

Tropical Storm Ivan: 1 claim, $7K
Late summer storms: 1 claim, $3K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Gresham Park 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 Gresham Park

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Gresham ParkDeclared for DeKalb County only

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

Around Gresham Park

Gresham Park and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Gresham Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Panthersvillemostly inland floodingLow

Atlantamostly inland floodingLow

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. Gresham Park covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Gresham Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Gresham Park. 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 Gresham Park total about $856K 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.