Natural hazards · Siloam

Siloam, GA natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Siloam?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Siloam to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding44%Hurricanes14%Tornadoes10%Cold waves9%Heat waves6%Earthquakes6%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Siloam faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 43% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Hurricanes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 13 years in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 56 years in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 66% of U.S. places

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Siloam flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Siloam

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SiloamDeclared for Greene County only

Greene County has had 12 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. Siloam 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 Siloam’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Siloam. 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.