Natural hazards · Jackson Heights

Jackson Heights, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Jackson Heights comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Jackson Heights?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Jackson Heights to be higher than in 71% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and hurricanes.

Inland flooding47%Hurricanes36%Tornadoes8%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Jackson Heights faces

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

Inland flooding

47% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 45% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Hurricanes

36% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 78% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

Not a risk here

AvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Jackson Heights flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Jackson 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: Lenoir County.

Disasters that hit Jackson Heights

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Jackson HeightsDeclared for Lenoir County only

Lenoir 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. Jackson 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 Jackson Heights’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Jackson 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.