Natural hazards · Keener

Keener, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Keener comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Keener?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Keener to be higher than in 81% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes.

Hurricanes67%Inland flooding12%Strong wind6%Everything else15%

By hazard

What Keener faces

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

Hurricanes

67% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

12% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 24% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

TornadoesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightningDrought

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 Keener flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Sampson County.

Disasters that hit Keener

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into KeenerDeclared for Sampson County only

Sampson County has had 19 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and severe 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. Keener 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 Keener’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Keener. 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.