Natural hazards · Briar Chapel

Briar Chapel, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Briar Chapel 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 Briar Chapel?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Briar Chapel to be higher than in 38% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding59%Tornadoes15%Hurricanes9%Heat waves5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Briar Chapel faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 55% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

15% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 62% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

9% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 8 years in the area

Heat waves

5% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 48% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year 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 Briar Chapel flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chatham County.

Disasters that hit Briar Chapel

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Briar ChapelDeclared for Chatham County only

Chatham 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. Briar Chapel 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 Briar Chapel’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Briar Chapel. 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.