Natural hazards · Yonah

Yonah, GA natural hazards

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

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Yonah to be higher than in 22% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and cold waves.

Inland flooding41%Cold waves22%Tornadoes15%Strong wind8%Earthquakes5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Yonah faces

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

Inland flooding

41% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 26% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

22% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 42 years in the area

Strong wind

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

5% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

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 Yonah flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: White County.

Disasters that hit Yonah

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into YonahDeclared for White County only

White County has had 16 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. Yonah 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 Yonah’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Yonah. 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.