Natural hazards · Pleasant Garden

Pleasant Garden, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pleasant Garden comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 1 claim here since 2018. 3 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pleasant Garden?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pleasant Garden to be higher than in 37% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding72%Tornadoes6%Hurricanes6%Cold waves5%Everything else11%

By hazard

What Pleasant Garden faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 60% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 53% of U.S. places

Hurricanes

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 70% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 12 years in the area

Cold waves

5% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 20% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat 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 Pleasant Garden flood?

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

1paid claims since 2018

$20Kpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20182026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Florence: 1 claim, $20K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Guilford County.

Disasters that hit Pleasant Garden

3 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into Pleasant GardenDeclared for Guilford County only

2018

Hurricane Florence

2 households applied for aid

2018

Tornado and Severe Storms

1 household applied for aid

2004

Hurricane Ivan

1 household applied for aid

Guilford County has had 24 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. Pleasant Garden covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pleasant Garden’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Town of Pleasant Garden. 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 Pleasant Garden total about $2.6M 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.