Natural hazards · Dobbins Heights

Dobbins Heights, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Dobbins Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Dobbins Heights?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Dobbins Heights to be higher than in 35% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding35%Tornadoes22%Hurricanes19%Earthquakes6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Dobbins Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

35% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 23% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

22% of expected damage

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

Hurricanes

19% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 84% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 5 years in the area

Earthquakes

6% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HailIce 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 Dobbins Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Richmond County.

Disasters that hit Dobbins Heights

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Dobbins Heights itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Dobbins Heights.

Brought FEMA money into Dobbins HeightsDeclared for Richmond County only

2018

Hurricane Florence

$35K to the Town of Dobbins Heights for repairs

2016

Hurricane Matthew

$5K to the Town of Dobbins Heights for repairs

2002

Severe Ice Storm

$1K to the Town of Dobbins Heights for repairs

2000

Severe Winter Storm

$22K to the Town of Dobbins Heights for repairs

Richmond County has had 15 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. Dobbins Heights 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 Dobbins Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Dobbins Heights. 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.