Natural hazards · Altamahaw

Altamahaw, NC natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Altamahaw?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Altamahaw to be higher than in 48% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding65%Tornadoes11%Hurricanes6%Everything else18%

By hazard

What Altamahaw faces

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

Inland flooding

65% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 69% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 86 years in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Altamahaw flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alamance County.

Disasters that hit Altamahaw

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into AltamahawDeclared for Alamance County only

Alamance County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes 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. Altamahaw 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 Altamahaw’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Altamahaw. 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.