Natural hazards · Glen Raven

Glen Raven, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Glen Raven comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 7 claims here since 1996.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Glen Raven?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Glen Raven to be higher than in 32% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding61%Tornadoes13%Hurricanes6%Everything else19%

By hazard

What Glen Raven faces

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

Inland flooding

61% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 50% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 56% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 10 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Raven flood?

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

7paid claims since 1996

$42Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19962026

Biggest named events

2025 July TS Chantal: 1 claim, $432
Hurricane Fran: 1 claim, $8K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Alamance County.

Disasters that hit Glen Raven

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Glen RavenDeclared for Alamance County only

Alamance County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Glen Raven

Glen Raven and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Elonmostly inland floodingModerate

Glen Ravenmostly inland floodingLow

Burlingtonmostly inland floodingLow

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 Raven covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Glen Raven’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Glen Raven. 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 Glen Raven total about $787K 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.