Natural hazards · Deercroft

Deercroft, NC natural hazards

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

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Deercroft?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Deercroft to be higher than in 52% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes38%Inland flooding26%Tornadoes14%Everything else23%

By hazard

What Deercroft faces

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

Hurricanes

38% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Inland flooding

26% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

14% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 17 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat 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 Deercroft flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Scotland County.

Disasters that hit Deercroft

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into DeercroftDeclared for Scotland County only

Scotland County has had 14 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. Deercroft 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 Deercroft’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Deercroft. 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.