Natural hazards · Boiling Springs

Boiling Springs, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Boiling Springs comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Boiling Springs?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Boiling Springs to be higher than in 25% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding52%Tornadoes16%Earthquakes6%Ice storms6%Strong wind5%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Boiling Springs faces

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

Inland flooding

52% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 33% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Tornadoes

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 83 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

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

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Strong wind

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 54% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Boiling Springs flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Cleveland County.

Disasters that hit Boiling Springs

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Boiling Springs itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Boiling Springs.

Brought FEMA money into Boiling SpringsDeclared for Cleveland County only

2024

Tropical Storm Helene

12 households applied for aid $4K aid approved $661K to the Town of Boiling Springs for repairs

2002

Severe Ice Storm

$21K to the Town of Boiling Springs for repairs

Cleveland County has had 17 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. Boiling Springs 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 Boiling Springs’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Boiling Springs. 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.