Natural hazards · Milstead

Milstead, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Milstead comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Milstead?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Milstead to be higher than in 49% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding62%Tornadoes15%Cold waves6%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Milstead 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 68% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 74% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Milstead flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Rockdale County.

Disasters that hit Milstead

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into MilsteadDeclared for Rockdale County only

Rockdale County has had 13 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. Milstead 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 Milstead’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Milstead. 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.