Natural hazards · Skippers Corner

Skippers Corner, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Skippers Corner comes from hurricanes, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 35 claims here since 1999.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Skippers Corner?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Skippers Corner to be higher than in 94% of U.S. communities, mostly from hurricanes and inland flooding.

Hurricanes72%Inland flooding18%Everything else10%

By hazard

What Skippers Corner faces

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

Hurricanes

72% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 3 years in the area

Inland flooding

18% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingTornadoesHailIce 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 Skippers Corner flood?

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

35paid claims since 1999

$1.4Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

19992026

Biggest named events

Hurricane Florence: 26 claims, $1.3M
October severe storms: 1 claim, $237
Hurricane Floyd: 1 claim, $4K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: New Hanover County.

Disasters that hit Skippers Corner

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for New Hanover County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Skippers Corner itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into Skippers CornerDeclared for New Hanover County only

New Hanover County has had 23 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Skippers Corner

Skippers Corner and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Skippers Cornermostly hurricanesVery high

Castle Haynemostly hurricanesVery high

Blue Clay Farmsmostly hurricanesVery high

Wrightsboromostly hurricanesVery high

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. Skippers Corner covers 2 census tracts, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Skippers Corner’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Skippers Corner. 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 Skippers Corner total about $9.7M 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.