Natural hazards · High Bridge

High Bridge, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in High Bridge 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 High Bridge?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in High Bridge to be higher than in 31% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding41%Tornadoes20%Strong wind14%Cold waves9%Lightning6%Everything else10%

By hazard

What High Bridge 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 41% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 98 years in the area

Strong wind

14% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about 7 times a year in the area

Cold waves

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lightning

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesDrought

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 High Bridge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Jessamine County.

Disasters that hit High Bridge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into High BridgeDeclared for Jessamine County only

Jessamine County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter 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. High Bridge 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 High Bridge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to High Bridge. 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.