Natural hazards · Taylortown

Taylortown, NC natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Taylortown comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Taylortown?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Taylortown to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding44%Tornadoes18%Hurricanes16%Everything else22%

By hazard

What Taylortown faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 25% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Tornadoes

18% of expected damage

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

Hurricanes

16% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 6 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 Taylortown flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Moore County.

Disasters that hit Taylortown

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into TaylortownDeclared for Moore County only

2018

Hurricane Florence

1 household applied for aid

Moore County has had 18 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and winter storms.

Around Taylortown

Taylortown and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Pinehurstmostly inland floodingLow

Taylortownmostly inland floodingLow

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