Natural hazards · Brices Creek

Brices Creek, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brices Creek comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Brices Creek?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brices Creek to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes72%Inland flooding16%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Brices Creek faces

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

Hurricanes

72% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

16% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Brices Creek flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Craven County.

Disasters that hit Brices Creek

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Brices CreekDeclared for Craven County only

Craven County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Brices Creek

Brices Creek and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Brices Creekmostly hurricanesVery high

New Bernmostly hurricanesVery high

Trent Woodsmostly hurricanesVery high

James Citymostly hurricanesVery high

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. Brices Creek 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 Brices Creek’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Brices Creek. 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.