Natural hazards · Maxeys

Maxeys, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maxeys comes from drought, 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 Maxeys?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maxeys to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from drought and inland flooding.

Drought32%Inland flooding28%Hurricanes14%Cold waves8%Tornadoes6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Maxeys faces

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

Drought

32% of expected damage

Recorded about 62 times a year in the area

Inland flooding

28% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Hurricanes

14% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 16 years in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 11 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

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 Maxeys flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Oglethorpe County.

Disasters that hit Maxeys

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MaxeysDeclared for Oglethorpe County only

Oglethorpe County has had 11 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. Maxeys 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 Maxeys’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Maxeys. 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.