Natural hazards · Vinings

Vinings, GA natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Vinings comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 285 claims here since 1979.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Vinings?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Vinings to be higher than in 44% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding71%Tornadoes13%Cold waves6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Vinings faces

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

Inland flooding

71% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong 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 Vinings flood?

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

285paid claims since 1979

$23.4Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19792026

Biggest named events

Late summer storms: 74 claims, $15.0M
Hurricane Helene: 45 claims, $3.0M
Tropical Storm Ivan: 45 claims, $2.9M

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cobb County.

Disasters that hit Vinings

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ViningsDeclared for Cobb County only

Cobb County has had 16 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe storms.

Around Vinings

Vinings and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Viningsmostly inland floodingModerate

Atlantamostly 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. Vinings covers 4 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Vinings’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Vinings. 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 Vinings total about $5.0M 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.