Natural hazards · Lakeview

Lakeview, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lakeview comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 54 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Lakeview?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lakeview to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes25%Cold waves24%Earthquakes7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Lakeview faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

25% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

24% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 76% of U.S. places

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 Lakeview flood?

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

54paid claims since 1979

$885Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Late summer storms: 18 claims, $198K
Early winter storms: 1 claim, $15K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Catoosa County.

Disasters that hit Lakeview

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into LakeviewDeclared for Catoosa County only

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

Around Lakeview

Lakeview and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Rossvillemostly inland floodingHigh

Fort Oglethorpemostly inland floodingModerate

Lakeviewmostly inland floodingModerate

East Ridgemostly inland floodingModerate

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. Lakeview covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lakeview’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Lakeview. 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 Lakeview total about $1.6M 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.