Natural hazards · Mount Zion

Mount Zion, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mount Zion comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mount Zion?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mount Zion to be higher than in 47% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding47%Tornadoes27%Cold waves9%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Mount Zion faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 40 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year 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 Mount Zion flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Carroll County.

Disasters that hit Mount Zion

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Mount Zion itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Mount Zion.

Brought FEMA money into Mount ZionDeclared for Carroll County only

2014

Severe Winter Storm

$5K to the City of Mount Zion for repairs

Carroll County has had 18 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. Mount Zion 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 Mount Zion’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Mount Zion. 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.