Natural hazards · Pink Hill

Pink Hill, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pink Hill comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is high for a U.S. community. 6 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pink Hill?

High

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pink Hill to be higher than in 69% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes55%Inland flooding19%Tornadoes10%Everything else16%

By hazard

What Pink Hill 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 93% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

19% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 39% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

10% of expected damage

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

Recorded about once every 28 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 Pink Hill flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Pink Hill 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.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

2flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Pink Hill

6 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Pink Hill itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the Town of Pink Hill.

Brought FEMA money into Pink HillDeclared for Lenoir County only

2019

Hurricane Dorian

$4K to the Town of Pink Hill for repairs

2018

Hurricane Florence

285 households applied for aid $126K aid approved $175K to the Town of Pink Hill for repairs

2016

Hurricane Matthew

66 households applied for aid $35K aid approved

2011

Hurricane Irene

127 households applied for aid $87K aid approved $20K to the Town of Pink Hill for repairs

2003

Hurricane Isabel

36 households applied for aid $47K aid approved $14K to the Town of Pink Hill for repairs

1999

Hurricane Floyd Major Disaster Declarations

$44K to the Town of Pink Hill for repairs

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. Pink Hill 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 Pink Hill’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pink Hill. 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.