Natural hazards · Sunset

Sunset, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Sunset 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 Sunset?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Sunset to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding60%Tornadoes12%Heat waves7%Strong wind6%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Sunset faces

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

Inland flooding

60% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 57% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

12% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Heat waves

7% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 46% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

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 Sunset flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Upson County.

Disasters that hit Sunset

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into SunsetDeclared for Upson County only

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