Natural hazards · Rockingham

Rockingham, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Rockingham comes from hurricanes, 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 Rockingham?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Rockingham to be higher than in 59% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes49%Inland flooding21%Tornadoes9%Drought9%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Rockingham faces

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

Hurricanes

49% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Tornadoes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 59% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 15 years in the area

Drought

9% of expected damage

Recorded about 23 times a year 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 Rockingham flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bacon County.

Disasters that hit Rockingham

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into RockinghamDeclared for Bacon County only

Bacon 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. Rockingham 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 Rockingham’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Rockingham. 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.