Natural hazards · Moncure

Moncure, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Moncure comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 2 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Moncure?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Moncure to be higher than in 36% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding57%Tornadoes13%Hurricanes12%Everything else17%

By hazard

What Moncure faces

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

Inland flooding

57% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 49% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

13% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 22 years in the area

Hurricanes

12% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 7 years in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDrought

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 Moncure flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Chatham County.

Disasters that hit Moncure

2 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into MoncureDeclared for Chatham County only

2018

Hurricane Florence

3 households applied for aid $1K aid approved

2016

Hurricane Matthew

1 household applied for aid

Chatham County has had 17 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. Moncure 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 Moncure’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Moncure. 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.