Natural hazards · Butters

Butters, NC natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Butters to be higher than in 89% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes48%Inland flooding30%Tornadoes7%Strong wind7%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Butters faces

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

Hurricanes

48% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

30% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 81% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 38 years in the area

Strong wind

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Butters flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Bladen County.

Disasters that hit Butters

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into ButtersDeclared for Bladen County only

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