Natural hazards · Maury

Maury, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Maury comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 4 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Maury?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Maury to be higher than in 83% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes55%Inland flooding21%Tornadoes8%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Maury faces

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

Hurricanes

55% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 4 years in the area

Inland flooding

21% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 52% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

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 Maury flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Greene County.

Disasters that hit Maury

4 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Maury itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Maury.

Brought FEMA money into MauryDeclared for Greene County only

2018

Hurricane Florence

5 households applied for aid $5K aid approved

2016

Hurricane Matthew

9 households applied for aid $3K aid approved

2011

Hurricane Irene

15 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2003

Hurricane Isabel

14 households applied for aid $13K aid approved

Greene County has had 20 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. Maury 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 Maury’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Maury. 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.