Natural hazards · Brookford

Brookford, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Brookford 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 Brookford?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Brookford to be higher than in 28% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes13%Earthquakes7%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Brookford faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 42% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 67% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Brookford flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Catawba County.

Disasters that hit Brookford

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into BrookfordDeclared for Catawba County only

Catawba County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Brookford

Brookford and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hickorymostly inland floodingLow

Brookfordmostly inland floodingLow

Mountain Viewmostly inland floodingLow

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. Brookford 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 Brookford’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Brookford. 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.