Natural hazards · Archer Lodge

Archer Lodge, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Archer Lodge 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 Archer Lodge?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding53%Tornadoes20%Heat waves6%Hurricanes6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Archer Lodge faces

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

Inland flooding

53% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 65% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

20% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Heat waves

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 8 times a year in the area

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold 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 Archer Lodge flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Johnston County.

Disasters that hit Archer Lodge

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Archer LodgeDeclared for Johnston County only

Johnston County has had 21 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. Archer Lodge covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Archer Lodge’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Archer Lodge. 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 Archer Lodge total about $1.1M 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.