Natural hazards · Glen Alpine

Glen Alpine, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glen Alpine comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is moderate for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2024. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glen Alpine?

Moderate

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glen Alpine to be higher than in 42% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding64%Tornadoes11%Everything else25%

By hazard

What Glen Alpine faces

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

Inland flooding

64% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 61% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 68% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce 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 Glen Alpine flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Glen Alpine, from FEMA’s records.

1paid claims since 2024

$182Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20242026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Helene: 1 claim, $182K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Burke County.

Disasters that hit Glen Alpine

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Glen AlpineDeclared for Burke County only

2024

Tropical Storm Helene

20 households applied for aid $12K aid approved $168K to the Town of Glen Alpine for repairs

2013

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

$10K to the Town of Glen Alpine for repairs

2004

Tropical Storm Frances

5 households applied for aid $17K aid approved

2002

Severe Ice Storm

$4K to the Town of Glen Alpine for repairs

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