Natural hazards · Forest Oaks

Forest Oaks, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Forest Oaks comes from inland flooding, 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 Forest Oaks?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Forest Oaks to be higher than in 54% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding80%Everything else20%

By hazard

What Forest Oaks faces

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

Inland flooding

80% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 77% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce 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 Forest Oaks flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Guilford County.

Disasters that hit Forest Oaks

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Forest OaksDeclared for Guilford County only

Guilford County has had 24 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Forest Oaks

Forest Oaks and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Forest Oaksmostly inland floodingModerate

Greensboromostly inland floodingModerate

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. Forest Oaks covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Forest Oaks’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Forest Oaks. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

FEMA’s expected losses across Forest Oaks total about $1.8M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.