Natural hazards · Mountain Park

Mountain Park, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Mountain Park comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 3 claims here since 2009.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Mountain Park?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Mountain Park to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding63%Tornadoes11%Earthquakes8%Cold waves6%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Mountain Park faces

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

Inland flooding

63% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 37% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

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 Mountain Park flood?

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

3paid claims since 2009

$101Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20092026

Biggest named events

Late summer storms: 2 claims, $63K
Hurricane Zeta: 1 claim, $37K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Gwinnett County.

Disasters that hit Mountain Park

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Mountain ParkDeclared for Gwinnett County only

Gwinnett County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Mountain Park

Mountain Park and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Lilburnmostly inland floodingLow

Mountain Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Tuckermostly inland floodingVery low

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. Mountain Park covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Mountain Park’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Mountain Park. 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 Mountain Park total about $3.0M 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.