Natural hazards · Mendes

Mendes, GA natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mendes to be higher than in 80% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes.

Hurricanes62%Inland flooding13%Drought7%Tornadoes5%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Mendes faces

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

Hurricanes

62% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

13% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 19% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Drought

7% of expected damage

Recorded about 24 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 26 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Mendes flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Tattnall County.

Disasters that hit Mendes

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MendesDeclared for Tattnall County only

Tattnall County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter 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. Mendes 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 Mendes’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mendes. 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.