Natural hazards · Panthersville

Panthersville, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Panthersville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 4 claims here since 1983.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Panthersville?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Panthersville to be higher than in 23% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes11%Cold waves8%Earthquakes5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Panthersville faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

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 Panthersville flood?

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

4paid claims since 1983

$22Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19832026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: DeKalb County.

Disasters that hit Panthersville

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PanthersvilleDeclared for DeKalb County only

DeKalb County has had 14 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Panthersville

Panthersville and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Candler-McAfeemostly inland floodingModerate

Gresham Parkmostly inland floodingLow

Panthersvillemostly inland floodingLow

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. Panthersville covers 3 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Panthersville’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Panthersville. 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 Panthersville total about $1.7M 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.