Natural hazards · Long View

Long View, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Long View comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2020.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Long View?

Very low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Long View to be higher than in 7% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes17%Earthquakes9%Ice storms6%Cold waves6%Everything else13%

By hazard

What Long View faces

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

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 9% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

17% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 63% of U.S. places

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 64% of U.S. places

Ice storms

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 94% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

6% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 17% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 2 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesStrong 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 Long View flood?

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

1paid claims since 2020

$50Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20202026

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Catawba County.

Disasters that hit Long View

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Long ViewDeclared for Catawba County only

Catawba County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Long View

Long View and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Hildebranmostly inland floodingModerate

Hickorymostly inland floodingLow

Mountain Viewmostly inland floodingLow

Long Viewmostly inland floodingVery low

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. Long View covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Long View’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Long View. 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 Long View total about $542K 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.